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Kaine

#1,432 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kaine has been given to 3,621 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #1,432 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 200 recorded.

Babies named Kaine, 2025

1 in 26,300

Kaine over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaine: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kaine means

Kaine is a given name.

The naming story behind Kaine

Wikidata records Kaine as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q26868855, 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, 3,621 boys were recorded with the name Kaine between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 200 in 2017; its best national rank was #1,014 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,155 in 2020 to #1,432 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,365 in 2015 to #1,432 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 Kaine?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 26,300
126 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 13,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,432
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaine 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaine was born before 2014 — so the typical Kaine is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,621
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Choose a decade

2010s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (1,329).

Is Kaine 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
+45
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−277
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−67
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.98×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.0%
Peak was 2017 (200)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,014
2017

Spellings of Kaine

Kaine is not the most common spelling — Wayne is, with 35.6% against Kaine's 0.36%.

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 Kaine is used

Across 2016–2025, Kaine was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 2,439 boys, against 1 in 12,223 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

141 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 2,439
  2. 2Missouri1 in 6,250
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 7,692
  4. 4Georgia1 in 8,333
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 8,333
  6. 6Ohio1 in 8,333
  7. 7Florida1 in 9,091
  8. 8Michigan1 in 10,000

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.

Kaine around the world

Where Kaine 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
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1997–2016
    #707
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1969–2012
    #514
    in 2012

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

Notable people named Kaine

People whose public names include Kaine, 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.

Kaine by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,432
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 277
Best rank ever
#1,014
2017
Peak year
2017
200 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,621
Count in 2025
126

Names similar to Kaine

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

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Names with a curve like Kaine

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

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Sibling names for Kaine

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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