Gaetano

Where Gaetano comes from

Gaetano hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1797
    Gaetano Donizetti born
    Italian opera composer
  2. 1904
    First appearance
    #1,064 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1914
    Peak, #632
    64 babies named Gaetano — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1932
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,236.
  5. 1953
    Gaetano Scirea born
    Italian footballer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Gaetano Donizetti · Italian opera composer, 1797–1848
  • Gaetano Scirea · Italian footballer, 1953–1989
  • Gaetano Mosca · Italian political scientist and journalist, 1858–1941
  • Gaetano Castrovilli · Italian association football player, born 1997
  • Gaetano Bresci · Italian anarchist regicide of King Umberto I of Italy, 1869–1901

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.