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Cayetano

Cayetano is a boy's name that peaked in 1937, when it was the 1,828th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 9,714th. About 460 Cayetanos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 35.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 4 8 12 16 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Cayetano

By the numbers

Total US births
752
Estimated living today
460
Median age today
35
Peak year
1937
Best rank
1,828th
Rank in 2025
9,714th
First recorded
1906

How old the living Cayetanos are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 4 8 12 16 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 752 babies given the name since 1906, about 460 are alive — 62 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Cayetanos

People named Cayetano with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Cayetano is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Cayetano is most concentrated in Texas (13.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1937

The most popular boys’ names the year Cayetano peaked:

All the names of 1937

Cayetano elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Cayetano 25 6,764th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Where Cayetano lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 7,765 men called Cayetano were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Cádiz Cayetano 669 1.078 124
Huelva Cayetano 278 1.040 130
Sevilla Cayetano 870 0.902 127
Murcia Cayetano 591 0.744 156
Jaén Cayetano 216 0.706 154
Badajoz Cayetano 208 0.634 177

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Cayetano against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.