Meaning and history
Italian form of the Latin name Caietanus, meaning “from Caieta.” Caieta, now Gaeta, was an ancient Italian town whose name may derive either from Καιάδας (Kaiadas), a Greek place where prisoners were executed, or from Caieta, the nurse of Aeneas. Saint Gaetano was a 16th-century Italian priest who founded the Theatines.
20062006: 25 births, rank #3,888
2007: 21 births, rank #4,493
2008: 23 births, rank #4,267
2009: 21 births, rank #4,582
2010: 15 births, rank #5,741
20112011: 18 births, rank #4,983
2012: 34 births, rank #3,231
2013: 22 births, rank #4,313
2014: 23 births, rank #4,263
2015: 16 births, rank #5,507
20162016: 26 births, rank #3,990
2017: 28 births, rank #3,781
2018: 16 births, rank #5,540
2019: 12 births, rank #6,777
2020: 25 births, rank #4,020
20212021: 26 births, rank #4,011
2022: 15 births, rank #5,874
2023: 16 births, rank #5,666
2024: 21 births, rank #4,701
20252025: 27 births, rank #3,949
Gaetano moved from #816 to #892 for boys between 1928 and 1929. Its highest annual birth count came in 1921, with 87 births.