Meaning not yet researched.
Kayne: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,418 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,418 in 2008; #2,666 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kayne in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,666 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,418.
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Kayne: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,418 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 119 (2008).
In 2025, 49 US boys were named Kayne, making it the 2,666th most common boys’ name of the year, up 188 places from #2,854 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 45 boys named Kayne in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,418, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 119. For comparison, it was #2,006 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kayne in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 5 babies. In all, 2,405 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 856 babies named Kayne.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 746 US boys were named Kayne; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 110. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,859 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kayne ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,433 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), Kain (3,750 babies since 1880), Kaine (3,621 babies since 1880) and Caine (2,104 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kayann, Kayanne and Kayenne 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: Kayann (228), Kayanne (23), Kayenne (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 Kayne 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,433 | #2,024 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 49 | #2,666 |
| 2024 | — | — | 45 | #2,854 |
| 2023 | — | — | 55 | #2,457 |
| 2022 | — | — | 60 | #2,363 |
| 2021 | — | — | 85 | #1,829 |
| 2020 | — | — | 105 | #1,565 |
| 2019 | — | — | 87 | #1,781 |
| 2018 | — | — | 110 | #1,543 |
| 2017 | — | — | 81 | #1,837 |
| 2016 | — | — | 69 | #2,058 |
| 2015 | — | — | 72 | #2,006 |
| 2014 | — | — | 73 | #1,973 |
| 2013 | — | — | 79 | #1,820 |
| 2012 | — | — | 105 | #1,528 |
| 2011 | — | — | 87 | #1,711 |
| 2010 | — | — | 93 | #1,672 |
| 2009 | — | — | 108 | #1,534 |
| 2008 | — | — | 119 | #1,418 |
| 2007 | — | — | 101 | #1,558 |
| 2006 | — | — | 70 | #1,933 |
| 2005 | — | — | 64 | #1,973 |
| 2004 | — | — | 62 | #1,965 |
| 2003 | — | — | 38 | #2,655 |
| 2002 | — | — | 37 | #2,619 |
| 2001 | — | — | 29 | #3,107 |
| 2000 | — | — | 48 | #2,108 |
| 1999 | — | — | 53 | #1,873 |
| 1998 | — | — | 49 | #1,972 |
| 1997 | — | — | 33 | #2,478 |
| 1996 | — | — | 38 | #2,203 |
| 1995 | — | — | 38 | #2,158 |
| 1994 | — | — | 43 | #1,952 |
| 1993 | — | — | 16 | #3,926 |
| 1992 | — | — | 17 | #3,678 |
| 1991 | — | — | 23 | #2,874 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,603 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,915 |
| 1988 | — | — | 13 | #3,794 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,760 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,336 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,516 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,776 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,207 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,024 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,220 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,322 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,792 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,494 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,682 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,563 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #3,042 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,291 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,499 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,025 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,033 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,413 | — | — |
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).