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Cayetano

Recorded 1906–2025 · United States

Cayetano was most popular in 1937, when 15 American babies were given the name — ranking #3,630 that year. In 2025 it ranked #20,040, with 7 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 752 people named Cayetano.

Most popular in1937
Rank that year#3,630
Births that year15
Total since 1880752
Given to100% boys
Alive today~467
Median age39

Cayetano over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Cayetano’s peak in 1937. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Cayetano?

Cayetano first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1906, which makes it about 119 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 95 of the 120 years since.

How many people are named Cayetano?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 752 American births named Cayetano between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 467 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Cayetano in 2025?

7 American babies were named Cayetano in 2025, ranking #20,040 that year.

Is Cayetano getting more or less popular?

Cayetano is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 7 births a year across 2021–2025 against 6 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.

Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.

Is Cayetano a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Cayetano is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 752 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

How old is someone named Cayetano?

Roughly 467 Americans named Cayetano are alive today — 62% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 39 years old, and half are between 19 and 62. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.

An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.

Where Cayetano is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org