Cainen
Cainen was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,270 among boys’ names; 521 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cainen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cainen?
#7,270 among boys’ names, 2025
Cainen fell from #6,383 in 2015 to #7,270 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 6.4 per million.
50 babies in 2017, the peak
Cainen peaked in 2017, when 50 boys were given it, #2,535 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,270 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,467 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,904 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,542 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,651 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,722 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 46 | #2,737 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 50 | #2,552 | 27.5 |
| 2017 | 50 | #2,535 | 27.0 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,209 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,383 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,140 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,295 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,038 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,245 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,724 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,601 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,271 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,685 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,115 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,847 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,188 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,948 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,118 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,414 | 6.7 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,814 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,151 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,084 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,923 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,972 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cainen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cainen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cainen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cainen, and how old are they?
An estimated 515 Americans named Cainen 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 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 413 people named Cainen (8 women and girls, 405 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 433 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 26,007 babies since 1880, Cainen is the eighth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 759 babies (1.4%), again the eighth 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 Cainen
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.
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