Gaetan
Gaetan is a boy's name that peaked in 2002, when it was the 7,055th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2011. About 100 Gaetans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Gaetan
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 113
- Estimated living today
- 100
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 2002
- Best rank
- 7,055th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1930
How old the living Gaetans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 113 babies given the name since 1930, about 100 are alive — 84 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 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 Gaetans
- Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784–1838)French zoologist
- Gaëtan Bong (born 1988)Cameroonian and French footballer
- Gaétan Boucher (born 1958)Canadian speed skater
- Gaétan Vestris (1729–1808)French ballet dancer
- Gaëtan Dugas (1953–1984)Canadian flight attendant, long misidentified as the index case of the North American AIDS Crisis
- Gaëtan Englebert (born 1976)Belgian footballer
- Gaëtan Laborde (born 1994)French footballer
- Gaëtan de Rochebouët (1813–1899)Prime Minister of France
People named Gaetan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 2002
The most popular boys’ names the year Gaetan peaked:
Gaetan elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Gaëtan +2 spellings | 54,035 | 48th |
| Belgium boys | Gaëtan +2 spellings | 1,004 | 145th |
| Switzerland boys | Gaëtan | 254 | 271st |
| France girls | Gaëtan | 135 | 653rd |
| England and Wales boys | Gaetan | 7 | 2,425th |
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.
Gaetan: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Gaëtan | 11 | 0.001% | 1,096th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Gaëtan | 243 | 0.056% | 76th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Gaetan is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.18% of children were given it – 26 of them.
Gaetan: rank by region
In 2015, Gaetan was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Gaëtan | 495 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Gaetan 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.