Meaning not yet researched.
Kane: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 695 in 2025. Its best rank was #319 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #319 in 2018; #451 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kane in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#451 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #319.
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Kane: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 695 boys in 2025. Peak: #319 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 1,055 (2018).
In 2025, 695 US boys were named Kane, making it the 451st most common boys’ name of the year, down 20 places from #431 in 2024. That is 39 fewer than the 734 boys named Kane in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #319, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,055. For comparison, it was #428 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kane in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 10 babies. In all, 19,557 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,042 babies named Kane.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,896 US boys were named Kane; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 1,055. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,458 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kane ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #240 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), Kayne (2,405 babies since 1880) and Caine (2,104 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaan, Can and Cayne 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: Kaan (894), Can (554), Cayne (458), Cane (353), Kayn (284), Kahne (204), Kaien (138), Kayen (99), Kahn (41), Kaon (33), Kaen (10), Canh (6), and more.
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 Kane 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 13 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 6 | #240 | — |
| West Virginia | 7 | #278 | — |
| Indiana | 26 | #304 | #314 |
| Nevada | 10 | #314 | #419 |
| Iowa | 12 | #321 | #222 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #324 | #237 |
| Ohio | 35 | #330 | #351 |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #330 | #366 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #337 | — |
| Michigan | 25 | #357 | #399 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #358 | #259 |
| Minnesota | 16 | #366 | #396 |
| Maryland | 14 | #375 | #558 |
| Alabama | 14 | #389 | — |
| Virginia | 20 | #399 | #562 |
| Arizona | 19 | #404 | #427 |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | #406 | #364 |
| Illinois | 27 | #409 | #271 |
| Colorado | 14 | #429 | #431 |
| California | 73 | #440 | #431 |
| Kentucky | 11 | #443 | #479 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #445 | #385 |
| Washington | 16 | #459 | #581 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #496 | — |
| Missouri | 12 | #502 | #269 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #505 | #737 |
| Tennessee | 15 | #508 | #412 |
| Texas | 65 | #517 | #485 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #523 | #412 |
| Georgia | 20 | #528 | #605 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #534 | — |
| Florida | 32 | #549 | #452 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #587 | #590 |
| New Jersey | 12 | #589 | #492 |
| Kansas | 5 | #647 | #440 |
| Oregon | 5 | #668 | #670 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #701 | #356 |
| New York | 20 | #731 | #713 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 695 | #451 |
| 2024 | — | — | 734 | #431 |
| 2023 | — | — | 793 | #402 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,471 | 911 | #361 |
| 2021 | — | — | 1,001 | #329 |
| 2020 | — | — | 965 | #337 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,094 | 1,004 | #334 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,055 | #319 |
| 2017 | — | — | 944 | #354 |
| 2016 | — | — | 794 | #402 |
| 2015 | — | — | 716 | #428 |
| 2014 | — | — | 597 | #477 |
| 2013 | — | — | 487 | #544 |
| 2012 | — | — | 477 | #547 |
| 2011 | — | — | 512 | #506 |
| 2010 | — | — | 449 | #565 |
| 2009 | — | — | 536 | #503 |
| 2008 | — | — | 654 | #438 |
| 2007 | — | — | 381 | #640 |
| 2006 | — | — | 311 | #705 |
| 2005 | — | — | 282 | #722 |
| 2004 | — | — | 276 | #701 |
| 2003 | — | — | 275 | #695 |
| 2002 | — | — | 304 | #640 |
| 2001 | — | — | 322 | #609 |
| 2000 | — | — | 333 | #594 |
| 1999 | — | — | 323 | #593 |
| 1998 | — | — | 350 | #563 |
| 1997 | — | — | 259 | #643 |
| 1996 | — | — | 253 | #659 |
| 1995 | — | — | 259 | #648 |
| 1994 | — | — | 276 | #628 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,549 | 201 | #735 |
| 1992 | — | — | 118 | #1,001 |
| 1991 | — | — | 102 | #1,080 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,995 | 111 | #1,003 |
| 1989 | — | — | 102 | #1,020 |
| 1988 | — | — | 108 | #921 |
| 1987 | — | — | 95 | #971 |
| 1986 | — | — | 88 | #985 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,899 | 68 | #1,129 |
| 1984 | — | — | 47 | #1,389 |
| 1983 | — | — | 63 | #1,137 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,253 | 60 | #1,204 |
| 1981 | — | — | 57 | #1,214 |
| 1980 | — | — | 47 | #1,384 |
| 1979 | — | — | 52 | #1,281 |
| 1978 | — | — | 48 | #1,313 |
| 1977 | — | — | 59 | #1,133 |
| 1976 | — | — | 45 | #1,326 |
| 1975 | — | — | 43 | #1,331 |
| 1974 | — | — | 60 | #1,070 |
| 1973 | — | — | 62 | #1,029 |
| 1972 | — | — | 30 | #1,584 |
| 1971 | — | — | 37 | #1,409 |
| 1970 | — | — | 35 | #1,427 |
| 1969 | — | — | 27 | #1,585 |
| 1968 | — | — | 16 | #2,071 |
| 1967 | — | — | 14 | #2,205 |
| 1966 | — | — | 15 | #2,095 |
| 1965 | — | — | 15 | #2,127 |
| 1964 | — | — | 17 | #2,016 |
| 1963 | — | — | 21 | #1,771 |
| 1962 | — | — | 23 | #1,693 |
| 1961 | — | — | 10 | #2,804 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,494 |
| 1959 | — | — | 12 | #2,477 |
| 1958 | — | — | 14 | #2,218 |
| 1957 | — | — | 11 | #2,561 |
| 1956 | — | — | 17 | #1,982 |
| 1955 | — | — | 12 | #2,367 |
| 1954 | — | — | 14 | #2,163 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,622 |
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).