Boy

Bane

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#3,667
30 boys
2015
#1,678
rank
1950
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not ranked

Bane: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,387 in 2013.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #1,387 in 2013; #3,667 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bane in 2025 was a boy.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#3,667 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #1,387.

Babies in 2025
30
Since 1880
1,051
Years on record
26

Babies named Bane, every year since 1880

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Boys

Bane: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,387 in 2013 · most boys in one year: 121 (2013).

About the name Bane

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.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

No related spellings pass our data threshold.

Rare spellings summarised here: Baine (253).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Bane in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025——30#3,667
2024——38#3,169
2023——50#2,619
2022——44#2,877
2021——44#2,826
2020——51#2,510
2019——55#2,429
2018——55#2,391
2017——70#2,017
2016——73#1,976
2015——93#1,678
2014——87#1,731
2013——121#1,387
2012——51#2,453
2011——37#3,053
2010——22#4,375
2009——12#6,850
2008——15#5,800
2007——11#7,149
2006——30#3,455
2005——18#4,649
2004——6#10,085
2003——17#4,629
2002——10#6,582
2001——6#9,369
1997——5#9,408

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).