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Kain

#1,738 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly to get, to create, through קַיִן

Kain has been given to 3,750 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #1,738 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 180 recorded.

Babies named Kain, 2025

1 in 35,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kain: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to get, to create, through קַיִן

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kain means

Kain belongs to the name family reached through Kain → קַיִן. Its meaning is “to get, to create”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kain is used in Finnish.

Kain comes through Biblical Hebrew קַיִן.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include קַיִן.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Kain is pronounced /ˈkɑi̯n/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,750 boys were recorded with the name Kain between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 180 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,093 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,547 in 2020 to #1,738 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,391 in 2015 to #1,738 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kain?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 35,300
94 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 18,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,738
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,447 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kain 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,447 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kain. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kains were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kain was born before 2011 — so the typical Kain is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,750
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (1,417).

Is Kain 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
−162
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−191
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−347
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.2%
Peak was 2016 (180)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,093
2016

Spellings of Kain

Kain is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 42.3% against Kain's 0.13%.

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 Kain is used

Across 2016–2025, Kain was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 16,745 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 7,692
  2. 2Michigan1 in 10,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 11,111
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 11,111
  5. 5California1 in 12,500
  6. 6Kansas1 in 12,500
  7. 7Missouri1 in 12,500
  8. 8Texas1 in 12,500

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.

Kain around the world

Where Kain 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
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1997–2016
    #486
    in 2016
  • Northern Ireland
    2001–2015
    #342
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    2002–2013
    #711
    in 2013
  • France
    2013–2025
    #5,303
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1971–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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 Kain

People whose public names include Kain, 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.

Kain in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Kain. Linked forms have their own page here.

CainCaínCaïm

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Kain by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,738
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 191
Best rank ever
#1,093
2016
Peak year
2016
180 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,750
Count in 2025
94

Names similar to Kain

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

KaineKaiusIainKaiserKaizenKaidynKainoaKairoKaisenKaitoDainCainKaidAlainKaisonKaioKaisZainRainBlainKaizerKainenKailoKairi

Names with a curve like Kain

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

YoussefAleksanderDezmondJordiTahjHusseinAbdulrahmanHagenJahlilDaylenZephaniahMicaiah

Sibling names for Kain

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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