Cain — #975 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cain

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,441 babies named Cain between 1910 and 2024, spanning 115 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cain currently holds the #975 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 330 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cain performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,813 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Cain shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,091 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Cain in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cain in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 7,441 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.