Meaning not yet researched.
Kaine: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 126 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,014 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,014 in 2017; #1,432 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaine in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,432 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,014.
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Kaine: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 126 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,014 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 200 (2017).
In 2025, 126 US boys were named Kaine, making it the 1,432nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 45 places from #1,477 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 123 boys named Kaine in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,014, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 200. For comparison, it was #1,365 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaine in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 17 babies. In all, 3,621 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,329 babies named Kaine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,636 US boys were named Kaine; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 200. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,556 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaine ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #862 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kane (19,557 babies since 1880), Cain (7,628 babies since 1880), Kain (3,750 babies since 1880) and Kayne (2,405 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaianne 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: Kaianne (11).
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 Kaine 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 5 | #862 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #978 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,102 | #784 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,119 | #1,708 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,190 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,331 | #1,241 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,372 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,410 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,443 | #1,156 |
| New York | 6 | #1,658 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 126 | #1,432 |
| 2024 | — | — | 123 | #1,477 |
| 2023 | — | — | 155 | #1,250 |
| 2022 | — | — | 174 | #1,175 |
| 2021 | — | — | 181 | #1,127 |
| 2020 | — | — | 168 | #1,155 |
| 2019 | — | — | 173 | #1,130 |
| 2018 | — | — | 176 | #1,112 |
| 2017 | — | — | 200 | #1,014 |
| 2016 | — | — | 160 | #1,188 |
| 2015 | — | — | 128 | #1,365 |
| 2014 | — | — | 111 | #1,469 |
| 2013 | — | — | 99 | #1,574 |
| 2012 | — | — | 83 | #1,795 |
| 2011 | — | — | 101 | #1,561 |
| 2010 | — | — | 98 | #1,604 |
| 2009 | — | — | 105 | #1,560 |
| 2008 | — | — | 114 | #1,449 |
| 2007 | — | — | 85 | #1,751 |
| 2006 | — | — | 72 | #1,883 |
| 2005 | — | — | 65 | #1,953 |
| 2004 | — | — | 47 | #2,399 |
| 2003 | — | — | 61 | #1,918 |
| 2002 | — | — | 71 | #1,670 |
| 2001 | — | — | 60 | #1,852 |
| 2000 | — | — | 64 | #1,751 |
| 1999 | — | — | 59 | #1,739 |
| 1998 | — | — | 81 | #1,414 |
| 1997 | — | — | 63 | #1,617 |
| 1996 | — | — | 77 | #1,380 |
| 1995 | — | — | 64 | #1,502 |
| 1994 | — | — | 66 | #1,459 |
| 1993 | — | — | 25 | #2,826 |
| 1992 | — | — | 26 | #2,710 |
| 1991 | — | — | 15 | #3,915 |
| 1990 | — | — | 11 | #4,839 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,404 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,047 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,417 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #7,067 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,766 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,192 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,809 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #3,989 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,112 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,422 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #4,002 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,030 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,560 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,230 |
| 1973 | — | — | 17 | #2,360 |
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).