Kainan
#3,757 for boys in 2025, 29 births
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 72 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 906since 1992
Kainan over time
Rank among boys' names. Kainan has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | #3,757 | 29 |
| 2024 | #2,958 | 42 |
| 2023 | #2,614 | 50 |
| 2022 | #3,216 | 37 |
| 2021 | #2,552 | 51 |
| 2020 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2019 | #2,421 | 55 |
| 2018 | #2,017 | 72 |
| 2017 | #2,566 | 49 |
| 2016 | #3,059 | 38 |
| 2015 | #3,431 | 32 |
| 2014 | #4,014 | 25 |
| 2013 | #3,753 | 27 |
| 2012 | #3,714 | 28 |
| 2011 | #3,510 | 30 |
| 2010 | #3,181 | 35 |
| 2009 | #3,721 | 28 |
| 2008 | #3,921 | 26 |
| 2007 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #4,105 | 23 |
| 2005 | #4,326 | 20 |
| 2004 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #3,303 | 20 |
| 1994 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #6,670 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kainan! It came in at #6,670, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1992–1994, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kainan
- 799 spots since 2024 (#2,958 → #3,757)
- 732 spots since 2020 (#3,025 → #3,757)
- 326 spots since 2015 (#3,431 → #3,757)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2018 at #2,017 (72 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 25,224 boys born in 2018 were named Kainan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 58,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.2% of all boys named Kainan (391) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 84 | #3,303 (1995) | #5,975 |
| 2000s | 184 | #3,721 (2009) | #4,797 |
| 2010s | 391 | #2,017 (2018) | #3,167 |
| 2020s | 247 | #2,552 (2021) | #3,020 |
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.
Kainan in 1992
Top boys' names in 1992
More about 1992
boys
1,997,409 boys got a published name in 1992; 1 in 285,344 of them was named Kainan, which outranked 32.1% of the 9,820 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,128Zacheus8
- #6,128Zebediah8
- #6,128Zuri8
- #6,670Kainan7
- #6,670Aadil7
- #6,670Abid7
- #6,670Abie7
- #7,422Abdulah6
- #7,422Abdulkareem6
- #7,422Abed6
Tied with 751 names at #6,670; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.