Caetano
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- kah-eh-TAH-noh
- Origin
- Latin
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #6,442 for boys
Caetano is a boys' name of Latin origin, meaning “from Gaeta”. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies) and 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).
What does Caetano mean?
Latin: Portuguese form of Cajetan, from Latin Caietanus
“from Gaeta”
The Portuguese form of Cajetan, meaning 'from Gaeta', an Italian port, and borne by the 16th-century Saint Cajetan.
Is Caetano a girl's or a boy's name?
Caetano is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK and 13 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Caetano in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,065th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Caetano, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2015, with 4 boys.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Caetano in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,198 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,195 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,086 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 1 | #6,218 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 1 | #4,262 |
How popular is Caetano in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,442nd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 130,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 13 boys in the US were named Caetano, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. It first appears in the records in 2003.
2025 had the most boys named Caetano of any year since it first appeared, in 2003.
Half of all the boys named Caetano in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Caetano in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,827 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,815 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,813 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,241 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,102 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,620 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,686 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,231 |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,546 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,144 |
| 2004 | 7 | #8,921 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,574 |
Names like Caetano
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Enzo, Cillian, Cassian, Nico, Milo, Arlo, Remy, Leonardo, Theo, Lando, Matteo, Lorenzo
Names related to Caetano
More Latin names
Oliver, Olivia, Leo, Roman, Aurora, Emily, Florence, Mabel, Luna, Nora, Rosie, Emilia, Max, Nova, Lucy, Julian
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Caetano: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/caetano, updated 20 October 2026.