Meaning not yet researched.
Cain: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 185 in 2025. Its best rank was #727 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #727 in 2014; #1,142 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cain in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,142 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #727.
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Cain: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 185 boys in 2025. Peak: #727 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 330 (2014).
In 2025, 185 US boys were named Cain, making it the 1,142nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 162 places from #980 in 2024. That is 45 fewer than the 230 boys named Cain in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #727, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 330. For comparison, it was #743 in 2015 and #3,064 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cain in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 9 babies. In all, 7,628 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,814 babies named Cain.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,529 US boys were named Cain; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 324. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,233 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cain ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #597 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kain (3,750 babies since 1880), Kaine (3,621 babies since 1880) and Caine (2,104 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kayin, Kaion and Kaian are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kayin (630), Kaion (171), Kaian (159), Cayn (12), Cauan (10).
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.
No nicknames listed for Cain in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 7 | #597 | #508 |
| Ohio | 12 | #717 | #852 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #727 | #540 |
| Michigan | 9 | #780 | #997 |
| Indiana | 7 | #783 | #814 |
| California | 27 | #865 | #507 |
| Arizona | 5 | #939 | #529 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,008 | #1,240 |
| Texas | 23 | #1,018 | #591 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,165 | #770 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,265 | #1,056 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,271 | #979 |
| New York | 6 | #1,602 | #1,660 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 185 | #1,142 |
| 2024 | — | — | 230 | #980 |
| 2023 | — | — | 250 | #922 |
| 2022 | — | — | 253 | #914 |
| 2021 | — | — | 235 | #956 |
| 2020 | — | — | 254 | #893 |
| 2019 | — | — | 285 | #806 |
| 2018 | — | — | 251 | #871 |
| 2017 | — | — | 262 | #845 |
| 2016 | — | — | 324 | #751 |
| 2015 | — | — | 326 | #743 |
| 2014 | — | — | 330 | #727 |
| 2013 | — | — | 285 | #792 |
| 2012 | — | — | 290 | #783 |
| 2011 | — | — | 254 | #845 |
| 2010 | — | — | 207 | #958 |
| 2009 | — | — | 200 | #988 |
| 2008 | — | — | 189 | #1,014 |
| 2007 | — | — | 141 | #1,248 |
| 2006 | — | — | 135 | #1,239 |
| 2005 | — | — | 139 | #1,151 |
| 2004 | — | — | 126 | #1,207 |
| 2003 | — | — | 127 | #1,176 |
| 2002 | — | — | 150 | #1,022 |
| 2001 | — | — | 137 | #1,055 |
| 2000 | — | — | 137 | #1,048 |
| 1999 | — | — | 136 | #1,019 |
| 1998 | — | — | 128 | #1,052 |
| 1997 | — | — | 141 | #951 |
| 1996 | — | — | 133 | #962 |
| 1995 | — | — | 113 | #1,053 |
| 1994 | — | — | 146 | #902 |
| 1993 | — | — | 99 | #1,132 |
| 1992 | — | — | 64 | #1,434 |
| 1991 | — | — | 45 | #1,773 |
| 1990 | — | — | 41 | #1,875 |
| 1989 | — | — | 39 | #1,898 |
| 1988 | — | — | 41 | #1,713 |
| 1987 | — | — | 30 | #2,024 |
| 1986 | — | — | 43 | #1,540 |
| 1985 | — | — | 35 | #1,731 |
| 1984 | — | — | 31 | #1,803 |
| 1983 | — | — | 32 | #1,753 |
| 1982 | — | — | 46 | #1,396 |
| 1981 | — | — | 50 | #1,311 |
| 1980 | — | — | 33 | #1,737 |
| 1979 | — | — | 27 | #1,948 |
| 1978 | — | — | 19 | #2,387 |
| 1977 | — | — | 26 | #1,914 |
| 1976 | — | — | 30 | #1,716 |
| 1975 | — | — | 27 | #1,795 |
| 1974 | — | — | 42 | #1,313 |
| 1973 | — | — | 35 | #1,438 |
| 1972 | — | — | 17 | #2,256 |
| 1971 | — | — | 17 | #2,293 |
| 1970 | — | — | 17 | #2,223 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,089 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,594 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,605 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,485 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #3,985 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #2,883 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #2,873 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,693 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,375 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,584 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,551 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,767 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #3,874 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #3,785 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,064 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #2,810 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #2,995 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,637 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #2,904 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,705 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,330 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,322 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,797 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,236 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #2,939 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #3,799 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #3,921 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #3,932 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,799 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,149 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,144 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,457 |
| 1910 | — | — | 9 | #1,128 |
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).