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Caine

#2,487 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Caine has been given to 2,104 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #2,487 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 89 recorded.

Babies named Caine, 2025

1 in 61,400

Caine 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Caine: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Caine means

Caine is a given name.

The naming story behind Caine

Wikidata records Caine as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q93298805, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,104 boys were recorded with the name Caine between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 89 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,241 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,940 in 2020 to #2,487 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,237 in 2015 to #2,487 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 Caine?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 61,400
54 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 31,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,487
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
42,555 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Caine 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 42,555 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Caine was born before 2009 — so the typical Caine is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,104
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (583).

Is Caine 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
−221
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−547
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−250
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.90×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.7%
Peak was 2008 (89)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,241
1973

Spellings of Caine

Caine is not the most common spelling — Wayne is, with 39.9% against Caine's 0.24%.

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 Caine is used

Across 2016–2025, Caine was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 41,561 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Florida1 in 33,333
  4. 4Maryland1 in 33,333
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 50,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 50,000
  7. 7Missouri1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

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.

Caine around the world

Where Caine 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
    1996–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2019
    #764
    in 2019
  • France
    1983–1983
    #2,956
    in 1983
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Caine

People whose public names include Caine, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Caine by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,487
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 547
Best rank ever
#1,241
1973
Peak year
2008
89 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,104
Count in 2025
54

Names similar to Caine

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

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Names with a curve like Caine

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Caine, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KekoaNaeemYehoshuaArenSimchaNaftaliMuhammedNahumKrishnaCiaranIssaShayan

Sibling names for Caine

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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