Given name
Gaetana
“woman from Gaeta”
Gaetana is used as a given name. One Italian interpretation is “woman from Gaeta.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Italian interpretation is “woman from Gaeta.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Italian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1904. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gaetana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 677
- 0 boys · 677 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 27 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 27 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 678 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gaetana’s family of names
Gaetana has a related form in Gaetane. Gaetana has a related form in Gaetanah. Gaetana has a related form in Gaetanna.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gaetana
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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