Caine
#2,480 for boys in 2025, 54 births
- Peak · boys
- 1973 · 44 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,104since 1968
Caine over time
Rank among boys' names. Caine has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,480 | 54 |
| 2024 | #2,261 | 63 |
| 2023 | #1,832 | 87 |
| 2022 | #2,000 | 76 |
| 2021 | #2,193 | 64 |
| 2020 | #1,937 | 75 |
| 2019 | #1,899 | 78 |
| 2018 | #2,282 | 59 |
| 2017 | #2,130 | 64 |
| 2016 | #2,412 | 53 |
| 2015 | #2,234 | 60 |
| 2014 | #2,175 | 62 |
| 2013 | #2,090 | 64 |
| 2012 | #2,517 | 49 |
| 2011 | #2,547 | 48 |
| 2010 | #2,632 | 46 |
| 2009 | #1,975 | 71 |
| 2008 | #1,708 | 89 |
| 2007 | #2,235 | 59 |
| 2006 | #2,659 | 44 |
| 2005 | #2,846 | 37 |
| 2004 | #3,014 | 33 |
| 2003 | #2,922 | 33 |
| 2002 | #2,372 | 43 |
| 2001 | #2,050 | 51 |
| 2000 | #2,196 | 45 |
| 1999 | #2,199 | 42 |
| 1998 | #2,094 | 44 |
| 1997 | #2,096 | 42 |
| 1996 | #1,908 | 47 |
| 1995 | #1,801 | 48 |
| 1994 | #1,581 | 58 |
| 1993 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1992 | #3,604 | 17 |
| 1991 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #3,216 | 14 |
| 1984 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #4,134 | 9 |
| 1979 | #3,168 | 13 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #3,386 | 11 |
| 1976 | #2,946 | 13 |
| 1975 | #3,078 | 12 |
| 1974 | #1,471 | 35 |
| 1973 | #1,238 | 44 |
| 1972 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
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| 1968 | #4,136 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Caine! It came in at #4,136, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1970, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Caine is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,760 · 1 in 23,510
Best ever in a state: #599 in Indiana, 2001.
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See more about Caine
- 219 spots since 2024 (#2,261 → #2,480)
- 543 spots since 2020 (#1,937 → #2,480)
- 246 spots since 2015 (#2,234 → #2,480)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1973 at #1,238 (44 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,662 boys born in 2023 were named Caine (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,631 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,238 in 1973, was only 1 in 35,422 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.7% of all boys named Caine (583) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 5 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,136 |
| 1970s | 145 | #1,238 (1973) | #3,301 |
| 1980s | 103 | #2,898 (1981) | #4,176 |
| 1990s | 344 | #1,581 (1994) | #3,000 |
| 2000s | 505 | #1,708 (2008) | #2,398 |
| 2010s | 583 | #1,899 (2019) | #2,292 |
| 2020s | 419 | #1,832 (2023) | #2,117 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Caine in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 31,946 of them was named Caine, which outranked 84.1% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,212Wolf61
- #2,212Yuri61
- #2,212Zakari61
- #2,234Caine60
- #2,234Arin60
- #2,234Aris60
- #2,234Aydenn60
- #2,253Adriano59
- #2,253Adyn59
- #2,253Arlen59
Tied with 18 names at #2,234; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.