In 2025, 30 US boys were named Bane, making it the 3,667th most common boys’ name of the year, down 498 places from #3,169 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 38 boys named Bane in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,387, reached in 2013. That year also had the most boys given the name: 121. For comparison, it was #1,678 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bane in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 5 babies. In all, 1,051 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 664 babies named Bane.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 510 US boys were named Bane; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 73. In 2025 that was about 1 in 56,936 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Baine are summarised on this page.