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Cane

#4,564 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Cane has been given to 353 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #4,564 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Cane, 2025

1 in 151,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cane: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cane means

Cane is a given name.

The naming story behind Cane

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Cane in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 247.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “It. Lat. dog”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Cane, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 353 boys were recorded with the name Cane between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,940 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,356 in 2020 to #4,564 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,141 in 2015 to #4,564 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 Cane?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,564
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cane 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Canes were born

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

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
353
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Choose a decade

2010s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (132).

Is Cane 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
+1,955
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,792
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,577
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.5%
Peak was 2022 (27)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,940
2008

Spellings of Cane

Cane is not the most common spelling — Carl is, with 11.7% against Cane's <0.01%.

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 Cane is used

Across 1910–2025, Cane was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,117,028 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Indiana1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Cane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cane around the world

Where Cane 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
    1997–2006
    #2,870
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1974–1999
    #539
    in 1999

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

Cane by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,564
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,792
Best rank ever
#3,940
2008
Peak year
2022
27 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
353
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Cane

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

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Sibling names for Cane

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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