Kain

#1,728 for boys in 2025, 94 births

Peak · boys
2016 · 180 births
Debut · boys
9 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,750
since 1973

Kain over time

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Rank among boys' names. Kain has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202014peak #1,090, 2016boys
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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#1,72894
2024#1,573110
2023#1,650104
2022#1,678102
2021#1,320141
2020#1,539107
2019#1,394127
2018#1,282143
2017#1,132168
2016#1,090180
2015#1,388124
2014#1,205152
2013#1,277136
2012#1,285136
2011#1,331127
2010#1,368124
2009#1,518109
2008#1,452113
2007#1,527103
2006#1,59691
2005#1,54691
2004#1,76371
2003#1,296108
2002#1,34698
2001#1,34596
2000#1,253105
1999#1,24999
1998#1,26196
1997#1,35082
1996#1,30384
1995#1,49164
1994#1,73451
1993#2,12337
1992#3,10521
1991#4,00514
1990#4,40712
1989#4,81110
1988#3,91512
1987#4,23910
1986#4,4579
1985#4,05210
1984#5,5616
1983#3,63011
1982#4,2349
1981#6,2625
1980#6,2505
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First appearance
1973

The first year at least five boys were named Kain! It came in at #3,445, and was given to 9 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Kain
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 155 spots since 2024 (#1,573#1,728)
  • 189 spots since 2020 (#1,539#1,728)
  • 340 spots since 2015 (#1,388#1,728)
Rise & fade · boys
43 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 2016 at #1,090 (180 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
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 10,543
  • Highest: 1 in 10,543 boys born in 2016 were named Kain (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 18,171 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 37.8% of all boys named Kain (1,417) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s43#2,799 (1974)#4,078
1980s87#3,630 (1983)#4,741
1990s560#1,249 (1999)#2,203
2000s985#1,253 (2000)#1,464
2010s1,417#1,090 (2016)#1,275
2020s658#1,320 (2021)#1,581

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.

Kain in 2014

boys
#1,205
152 births · 1 in 12,637 boys

Top boys' names in 2014

  1. #1Noah19,344
  2. #2Liam18,488
  3. #3Mason17,225
  4. #4Jacob16,923
  5. #5William16,851
  6. #6Ethan15,749
  7. #7Michael15,505
  8. #8Alexander15,449
  9. #9James14,464
  10. #10Daniel13,961
  11. #1,205Kain152
More about 2014

boys

1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 12,637 of them was named Kain, which outranked 91.4% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kain
  1. #1,201Brennen153
  2. #1,201Brighton153
  3. #1,201Zev153
  4. #1,205Kain152
  5. #1,205Armaan152
  6. #1,205Avraham152
  7. #1,205Cian152
  8. #1,213Daylen151
  9. #1,213Devan151
  10. #1,213Kyren151

Tied with 7 names at #1,205; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2013
Risers
  1. 645Bode#1,427#782
  2. 624Axl#1,459#835
  3. 427Gannon#841#414
  4. 326Bodie#1,305#979
  5. 316Royal#886#570
Fallers
  1. 291Bently#897#1,188
  2. 261Damion#849#1,110
  3. 249Amare#598#847
  4. 241Isiah#816#1,057
  5. 241Jesiah#999#1,240

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

See the top 100 for 2014