Cayetano
Masculine · “Latin Caietanus”
St Cajetan founded an order, reformed the clergy, and set up a charitable pawnshop in Naples to keep the poor away from usurers. He is the patron saint of the unemployed and of people looking for work, which is an unusually practical portfolio.
How old is the name Cayetano?
Cayetano first appears in US birth records in 1906 — 119 years ago. The typical Cayetano alive today was born around 1959, making them about 66 years old. About 500 people named Cayetano are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cayetano most popular?
Cayetano peaked in 1906, reaching #1253 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 8,461 places below that high. See the whole 1906 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Caieta to Cayetano
The story of Cayetano
Gaetano dei Conti di Thiene, born in 1480, was a lawyer and papal official who took orders late and spent his life on practical reform. He co-founded the Theatines in 1524, an order of clerks regular intended to raise the standard of the secular clergy by example rather than by rule, and it became one of the engines of the Catholic Reformation. In Naples he established a monte di pieta, a charitable pawnshop lending against pledges at no interest, to keep the poor out of the hands of moneylenders; it survives as a bank. His patronage follows from that work: the unemployed, job seekers, gamblers and the good fortune of ordinary households. In Argentina his feast on 7 August draws very large crowds asking for work, which is one of the few saints' cults organized around employment.
Meaning
Latin Caietanus, of Caieta
Cayetano is the Spanish form of Caietanus, meaning a man of Caieta, the Roman name of Gaeta in Campania. Virgil says the town was named for Caieta, the nurse of Aeneas, who was buried there. The name spread through St Cajetan of Thiene, canonized in 1671. The American peak is 1906.
How the name formed
- Caieta
- Caietanus
- Cayetano
Related forms: Gaetano · Cayetano · Cajetan
Pronouncing Cayetano
kah-yeh-TAH-noh
Four syllables, stress on the third. Italian Gaetano begins with a hard g; Spanish uses c and y for the same sounds.
Nicknames for Cayetano
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1906
- Most boys named
- 193715 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1253reached in 1906
- Change vs 2023
- 0.0%7 in 2025, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Cayetano in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Gaetano in Italian — same name
- Cayetano in Spanish — same name
- Cajetan in English — same name
Cayetanos among us
people named Cayetano are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Cayetano
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Cayetano sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Cayetano beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cayetano in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Tano is an established short form in Spanish and Italian.
- The saint's history is unusually well documented.
- The Spanish pronunciation is completely regular.
- Four syllables is long for English-language settings.
- Gaetano is the Italian form and looks quite different.
- The 1906 peak places it over a century ago.
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- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Cayetano are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Cayetano in 2025?
- Cayetano ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cayetano?
- About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Cayetano — 7 in all.
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