Meaning not yet researched.
Kain: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 94 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,093 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,093 in 2016; #1,738 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kain in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,738 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #1,093.
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Kain: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 94 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,093 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 180 (2016).
In 2025, 94 US boys were named Kain, making it the 1,738th most common boys’ name of the year, down 162 places from #1,576 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 110 boys named Kain in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,093, reached in 2016. That year also had the most boys given the name: 180. For comparison, it was #1,391 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kain in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 9 babies. In all, 3,750 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,417 babies named Kain.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,276 US boys were named Kain; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 180. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,171 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kain ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #840 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cain (7,628 babies since 1880), Kane (19,557 babies since 1880), Kaine (3,621 babies since 1880) and Kayne (2,405 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kauan, Kayon and Kaiyan 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: Kauan (358), Kayon (356), Kaiyan (300), Kaiyon (159), Kaihan (113), Kaiyen (82), Kahan (40), Kaiann (11), Kaeon (6).
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 Kain 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 5 | #840 | #892 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,171 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,189 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,389 | — |
| Texas | 11 | #1,608 | #928 |
| New York | 6 | #1,657 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,731 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,916 | #1,183 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 94 | #1,738 |
| 2024 | — | — | 110 | #1,576 |
| 2023 | — | — | 104 | #1,656 |
| 2022 | — | — | 102 | #1,687 |
| 2021 | — | — | 141 | #1,321 |
| 2020 | — | — | 107 | #1,547 |
| 2019 | — | — | 127 | #1,398 |
| 2018 | — | — | 143 | #1,286 |
| 2017 | — | — | 168 | #1,136 |
| 2016 | — | — | 180 | #1,093 |
| 2015 | — | — | 124 | #1,391 |
| 2014 | — | — | 152 | #1,211 |
| 2013 | — | — | 136 | #1,281 |
| 2012 | — | — | 136 | #1,289 |
| 2011 | — | — | 127 | #1,337 |
| 2010 | — | — | 124 | #1,368 |
| 2009 | — | — | 109 | #1,525 |
| 2008 | — | — | 113 | #1,458 |
| 2007 | — | — | 103 | #1,532 |
| 2006 | — | — | 91 | #1,599 |
| 2005 | — | — | 91 | #1,549 |
| 2004 | — | — | 71 | #1,771 |
| 2003 | — | — | 108 | #1,301 |
| 2002 | — | — | 98 | #1,351 |
| 2001 | — | — | 96 | #1,346 |
| 2000 | — | — | 105 | #1,255 |
| 1999 | — | — | 99 | #1,257 |
| 1998 | — | — | 96 | #1,266 |
| 1997 | — | — | 82 | #1,358 |
| 1996 | — | — | 84 | #1,307 |
| 1995 | — | — | 64 | #1,501 |
| 1994 | — | — | 51 | #1,744 |
| 1993 | — | — | 37 | #2,148 |
| 1992 | — | — | 21 | #3,161 |
| 1991 | — | — | 14 | #4,125 |
| 1990 | — | — | 12 | #4,547 |
| 1989 | — | — | 10 | #5,001 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,046 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,416 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,660 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,203 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,971 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,751 |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,409 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,778 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,751 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,625 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,353 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,029 |
| 1974 | — | — | 13 | #2,874 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,575 |
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).