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Bane

#3,666 in 2025Boys' name

Cause of misery or ruin

Bane has been given to 1,051 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #3,666 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 121 recorded.

Babies named Bane, 2025

1 in 111,000

Bane over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bane: meaning, origin, and history

Cause of misery or ruin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bane means

Bane means “cause of misery or ruin”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,051 boys were recorded with the name Bane between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 121 in 2013; its best national rank was #1,387 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,509 in 2020 to #3,666 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,678 in 2015 to #3,666 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Bane?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,666
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bane sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Banes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bane was born before 2015 — so the typical Bane is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
63.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,051
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 63.2% of all recorded uses (664).

Is Bane rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−499
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,157
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,988
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.8%
Peak was 2013 (121)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,387
2013

Spellings of Bane

Bane is not the most common spelling — Wayne is, with 11.3% against Bane's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Bane is used

Across 1910–2025, Bane was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 321,507 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in —
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Iowa1 in —
  5. 5Indiana1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bane around the world

Where Bane ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2013–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2012–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2007–2013
    #389
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bane by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,666
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,157
Best rank ever
#1,387
2013
Peak year
2013
121 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,051
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Bane

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Bane

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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