Gaetana — girls' name

What the Data Says About Gaetana

The Social Security Administration has registered 676 babies named Gaetana between 1904 and 2008, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gaetana currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 27 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gaetana performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 181 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Gaetana shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 274 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Gaetana in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gaetana in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 676 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.