boys:
3.8k births since 1904
#2007 (56th percentile)
overall:
3.8k births since 1904
#4452 (42nd percentile)
The name Gaetano is the #4,452 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,811 recorded births since 1904. This represents the 42.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,007 (56.2% percentile) for all time with 3,811 births since 1904.
Gaetano first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1904 (first recorded for boys in 1904). Birth data for Gaetano is available in 119 out of the 120 years between 1904 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Gaetano reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 14.9% percentile (ranked #468) with 76 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 96 births per million (ranked 5.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gaetano ranks #900 for boys (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 9.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gaetano".
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Our model has identified 18 different pronunciations for the name Gaetano. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 23.3% confident that Gaetano is pronounced as gai-TAH-noh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is gah-eh-TAH-noh, at 20.9% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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