Meaning not yet researched.
Kainen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,634 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,634 in 2018; #3,019 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kainen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,019 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,634.
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Kainen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,634 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 100 (2018).
In 2025, 41 US boys were named Kainen, making it the 3,019th most common boys’ name of the year, up 628 places from #3,647 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 31 boys named Kainen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,634, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 100. For comparison, it was #2,287 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kainen in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 1,316 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 612 babies named Kainen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 648 US boys were named Kainen; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 100. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,660 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kannon (6,181 babies since 1880), Kanan (1,820 babies since 1880) and Kanon (1,688 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Kainen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 41 | #3,019 |
| 2024 | — | — | 31 | #3,647 |
| 2023 | — | — | 48 | #2,717 |
| 2022 | — | — | 54 | #2,539 |
| 2021 | — | — | 60 | #2,311 |
| 2020 | — | — | 69 | #2,058 |
| 2019 | — | — | 90 | #1,744 |
| 2018 | — | — | 100 | #1,634 |
| 2017 | — | — | 87 | #1,773 |
| 2016 | — | — | 68 | #2,075 |
| 2015 | — | — | 58 | #2,287 |
| 2014 | — | — | 34 | #3,268 |
| 2013 | — | — | 40 | #2,869 |
| 2012 | — | — | 36 | #3,140 |
| 2011 | — | — | 51 | #2,458 |
| 2010 | — | — | 48 | #2,568 |
| 2009 | — | — | 46 | #2,682 |
| 2008 | — | — | 42 | #2,856 |
| 2007 | — | — | 28 | #3,745 |
| 2006 | — | — | 29 | #3,564 |
| 2005 | — | — | 25 | #3,775 |
| 2004 | — | — | 26 | #3,585 |
| 2003 | — | — | 28 | #3,324 |
| 2002 | — | — | 26 | #3,409 |
| 2001 | — | — | 25 | #3,459 |
| 2000 | — | — | 18 | #4,294 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,902 |
| 1998 | — | — | 17 | #4,106 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,355 |
| 1996 | — | — | 17 | #3,924 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,381 |
| 1994 | — | — | 12 | #4,957 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,140 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,549 |
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).