Bane
Bane was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,666 among boys’ names; 1,051 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Bane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bane?
#3,666 among boys’ names, 2025
Bane fell from #1,678 in 2015 to #3,666 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 48.5 to 17.6 per million.
121 babies in 2013, the peak
Bane peaked in 2013, when 121 boys were given it, #1,387 among boys’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,666 | 17.6 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,167 | 22.1 |
| 2023 | 50 | #2,618 | 29.2 |
| 2022 | 44 | #2,875 | 25.2 |
| 2021 | 44 | #2,825 | 25.2 |
| 2020 | 51 | #2,509 | 29.5 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,428 | 30.7 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,390 | 30.3 |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,017 | 37.8 |
| 2016 | 73 | #1,976 | 38.5 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 93 | #1,678 | 48.5 |
| 2014 | 87 | #1,731 | 45.3 |
| 2013 | 121 | #1,387 | 64.0 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,452 | 26.9 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,052 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,374 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,846 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,795 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,145 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,453 | 14.6 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,644 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,079 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,624 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,575 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,362 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,402 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bane has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bane, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,051 Americans ever recorded as Bane. The median Bane alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 822 people named Bane (27 women and girls, 795 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 800 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 237 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 805 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,916 babies since 1880, Bane is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 50 babies (60%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bane
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bane and names like it
- Compare Bane and BayneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBane peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bane since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Bane.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bane alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.