Cane
Cane was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,564 among boys’ names; 353 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cane?
#4,564 among boys’ names, 2025
Cane rose from #7,141 in 2015 to #4,564 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.7 to 12.9 per million.
27 babies in 2022, the peak
Cane peaked in 2022, when 27 boys were given it, #4,001 among boys’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,564 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,519 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,494 | 9.9 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,001 | 15.5 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,074 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,356 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,380 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,948 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 8 | #8,978 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,595 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,141 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,353 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,103 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,863 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,229 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,398 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,592 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,940 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,677 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,318 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,714 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,625 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,549 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,428 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,099 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,385 | 4.7 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,048 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,932 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cane has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cane, and how old are they?
An estimated 349 Americans named Cane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 526 people named Cane (15 women and girls, 511 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 248 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Cane?
Cane is a less common spelling of Kane: SSA has recorded 353 Cane and 19,557 Kane since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,840 babies since 1880, Cane is the eighth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 989 babies (2.2%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Cane
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 Cane and names like it
- Compare Cane and KaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Cane.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cane alive today were born 2013-2025.
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