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Meaning of the nameCaetano

Caetano is a male name of Latin origin, from Latin Caiētānus, 'native of Gaeta', an Italian city, taken up again from Italian Gaetano.

Meaning

“native of Gaeta, a city in Italy”

Source: Wiktionary: Caetano · Wiktionary: Gaetano · Behind the Name: Gaetano

People (2022)
11,065
Rank in Brazil
#1,588
Median age
21 years
2010 Census
9,417
people

Caetano in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Caetano, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 2010s (2,260 people).

64 women 11,001 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Caetano is most common

States with the highest share of people named Caetano in the population, in the 2022 Census.

  1. Rio Grande do Sul 0.015%
  2. Santa Catarina 0.010%
  3. Distrito Federal 0.009%
  4. Minas Gerais 0.006%
  5. São Paulo 0.006%
All states
StatePeople% of population
São Paulo2,7610.006%
Rio Grande do Sul1,5870.015%
Minas Gerais1,3150.006%
Santa Catarina7240.010%
Paraná7150.006%
Rio de Janeiro7090.004%
Bahia5580.004%
Pernambuco4520.005%
Ceará4240.005%
Distrito Federal2600.009%
Pará2530.003%
Goiás2350.003%
Maranhão1660.002%
Mato Grosso1570.004%
Espírito Santo1540.004%
Mato Grosso do Sul1030.004%
Alagoas930.003%
Piauí840.003%
Paraíba570.001%
Amazonas550.001%
Rio Grande do Norte470.001%
Tocantins440.003%
Sergipe370.002%
Amapá220.003%
Rondônia210.001%
Roraima210.003%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Caetano

Wiktionary records Caetano as a learned borrowing from Latin Caiētānus, 'inhabitant of Gaeta', remade from Italian Gaetano, the name of a saint. According to Behind the Name, Caietanus meant 'from Caieta', the ancient name of the Italian city now called Gaeta, and Caetano is the Portuguese form of that name. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil records Kaetano as a spelling variant. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 11,065 people named Caetano, with a median age of 21. The name appears from before 1940 and gained more records among those born from 2010 on; it is almost always male and, proportionally, most common in Rio Grande do Sul.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Caetano · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: Gaetano · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Behind the Name: Gaetano · behindthename.com · meaning
  4. Behind the Name: Caetano · behindthename.com · origin
  5. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Caetano · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Caetano

What does the name Caetano mean?

Caetano means “native of Gaeta, a city in Italy”, according to Wiktionary and Behind the Name.

How many people are named Caetano in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 11,065 people with the first name Caetano, which ranks it number 1,588 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 2010s.

Is Caetano a boy's or a girl's name?

Caetano is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 64 women and 11,001 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Caetano?

Caetano is a name of Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Caetano most common?

Proportionally, in Rio Grande do Sul: 0.015% of the state's population is named Caetano (1,587 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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