Kaine
#1,425 for boys in 2025, 126 births
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 200 births
- Debut · boys
- 17 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,621since 1973
Kaine over time
Rank among boys' names. Kaine 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 | #1,425 | 126 |
| 2024 | #1,472 | 123 |
| 2023 | #1,248 | 155 |
| 2022 | #1,171 | 174 |
| 2021 | #1,125 | 181 |
| 2020 | #1,153 | 168 |
| 2019 | #1,127 | 173 |
| 2018 | #1,111 | 176 |
| 2017 | #1,010 | 200 |
| 2016 | #1,183 | 160 |
| 2015 | #1,359 | 128 |
| 2014 | #1,465 | 111 |
| 2013 | #1,568 | 99 |
| 2012 | #1,787 | 83 |
| 2011 | #1,561 | 101 |
| 2010 | #1,599 | 98 |
| 2009 | #1,556 | 105 |
| 2008 | #1,445 | 114 |
| 2007 | #1,741 | 85 |
| 2006 | #1,877 | 72 |
| 2005 | #1,943 | 65 |
| 2004 | #2,376 | 47 |
| 2003 | #1,906 | 61 |
| 2002 | #1,660 | 71 |
| 2001 | #1,841 | 60 |
| 2000 | #1,742 | 64 |
| 1999 | #1,733 | 59 |
| 1998 | #1,406 | 81 |
| 1997 | #1,599 | 63 |
| 1996 | #1,375 | 77 |
| 1995 | #1,491 | 64 |
| 1994 | #1,454 | 66 |
| 1993 | #2,786 | 25 |
| 1992 | #2,670 | 26 |
| 1991 | #3,813 | 15 |
| 1990 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #4,239 | 10 |
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| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #4,593 | 8 |
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| 1980 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #2,311 | 17 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kaine! It came in at #2,311, and was given to 17 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1981, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Kaine is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#523 · 1 in 3,134
- Arkansas#536 · 1 in 2,706
- Louisiana#570 · 1 in 2,856
- Kansas#574 · 1 in 2,908
- South Carolina#587 · 1 in 3,482
Best ever in a state: #245 in South Dakota, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | #523 | 13 | 1 in 3,134 |
| Arkansas | #536 | 5 | 1 in 2,706 |
| Louisiana | #570 | 8 | 1 in 2,856 |
| Kansas | #574 | 5 | 1 in 2,908 |
| South Carolina | #587 | 6 | 1 in 3,482 |
| Missouri | #679 | 7 | 1 in 4,335 |
| Colorado | #693 | 6 | 1 in 4,300 |
| Ohio | #787 | 10 | 1 in 5,731 |
| Indiana | #825 | 6 | 1 in 5,661 |
| North Carolina | #905 | 7 | 1 in 7,166 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,093 | 6 | 1 in 9,544 |
| Michigan | #1,094 | 5 | 1 in 9,179 |
| Florida | #1,104 | 10 | 1 in 9,584 |
| Georgia | #1,114 | 6 | 1 in 8,699 |
| Illinois | #1,180 | 6 | 1 in 9,945 |
| California | #1,442 | 12 | 1 in 17,209 |
| Texas | #1,555 | 10 | 1 in 17,488 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kaine
- 47 spots since 2024 (#1,472 → #1,425)
- 272 spots since 2020 (#1,153 → #1,425)
- 66 spots since 2015 (#1,359 → #1,425)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2017 at #1,010 (200 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,255 boys born in 2017 were named Kaine (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,556 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 36.7% of all boys named Kaine (1,329) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 62 | #2,311 (1973) | #4,152 |
| 1980s | 72 | #3,838 (1980) | #4,605 |
| 1990s | 487 | #1,375 (1996) | #2,300 |
| 2000s | 744 | #1,445 (2008) | #1,809 |
| 2010s | 1,329 | #1,010 (2017) | #1,377 |
| 2020s | 927 | #1,125 (2021) | #1,266 |
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.
Kaine in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 10,319 of them was named Kaine, which outranked 92.1% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).