Cayne
Cayne was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,518 among boys’ names; 458 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cayne?
#6,518 among boys’ names, 2025
Cayne fell from #5,547 in 2015 to #6,518 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 7.6 per million.
26 babies in 2008, the peak
Cayne peaked in 2008, when 26 boys were given it, #3,941 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,518 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,097 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,907 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,920 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,512 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,751 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,503 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,953 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,564 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,116 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,547 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,356 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,199 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,281 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,009 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,088 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,931 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,941 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,465 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,559 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,613 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,584 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,587 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,437 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,318 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #7,978 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,519 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,282 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,229 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,927 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,900 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cayne has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cayne, and how old are they?
An estimated 453 Americans named Cayne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 355 people named Cayne (9 women and girls, 346 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 354 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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 Cayne?
Cayne is a less common spelling of Kaine: SSA has recorded 458 Cayne and 3,621 Kaine since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 28,702 babies since 1880, Cayne is the fifth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 959 babies (1.4%), 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 Cayne
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 Cayne and names like it
- Compare Cayne and KaineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCayne peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Cayne.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cayne alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.