Cainen

#7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births

Peak · boys
2017 · 50 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
521
since 1994

Cainen over time

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Rank among boys' names. Cainen has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201994peak #2,532, 2017boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#7,19411
2024#5,44317
2023#9,7637
2022#6,47913
2021#4,62821
2020#4,69820
2019#2,73646
2018#2,54650
2017#2,53250
2016#4,19924
2015#6,32413
2014#7,04811
2013#6,24113
2012#6,00114
2011#4,22123
2010#3,70828
2009#4,58221
2008#7,18711
2007#5,66115
2006#4,10523
2005#4,82417
2004#6,13812
2003#7,8318
2002#7,0559
2001#5,39013
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1997#6,1009
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1995#7,7926
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First appearance
1994

The first year at least five boys were named Cainen! It came in at #8,800, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1998–2000, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Cainen
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 1,751 spots since 2024 (#5,443#7,194)
  • 2,496 spots since 2020 (#4,698#7,194)
  • 870 spots since 2015 (#6,324#7,194)
Rise & fade · boys
23 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1994
  • Peaked 2017 at #2,532 (50 births)
  • Births halved by 2020, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 36,323
  • Highest: 1 in 36,323 boys born in 2018 were named Cainen (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,532 in 2017, was only 1 in 37,019 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 52.2% of all boys named Cainen (272) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s31#6,100 (1997)#8,059
2000s129#4,105 (2006)#5,864
2010s272#2,532 (2017)#4,556
2020s89#4,628 (2021)#6,368

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.

Cainen in 1994

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#8,800
5 births · 1 in 386,406 boys

Top boys' names in 1994

  1. #1Michael44,477
  2. #2Christopher34,807
  3. #3Matthew33,654
  4. #4Joshua31,374
  5. #5Tyler30,482
  6. #6Brandon29,492
  7. #7Jacob29,417
  8. #8Daniel28,065
  9. #9Nicholas27,770
  10. #10Andrew26,019
  11. #8,800Cainen5
More about 1994

boys

1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 386,406 of them was named Cainen, which outranked 14.1% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cainen
  1. #7,770Zimri6
  2. #7,770Zvi6
  3. #7,770Zyaire6
  4. #8,800Cainen5
  5. #8,800Aarik5
  6. #8,800Aarren5
  7. #8,800Aashish5

Tied with 1,445 names at #8,800; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1993
Risers
  1. 1,574Tyrin#2,509#935
  2. 714River#1,638#924
  3. 472Bryton#1,460#988
  4. 463Kahlil#1,444#981
  5. 446Jayden#1,295#849
Fallers
  1. 551Garth#965#1,516
  2. 364Jordy#828#1,192
  3. 342Montel#889#1,231
  4. 289Darrel#889#1,178
  5. 245Deante#859#1,104

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1994