Kainan — #2973 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kainan

The Social Security Administration has registered 877 babies named Kainan between 1992 and 2024, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kainan currently holds the #2973 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 72 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kainan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 391 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kainan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 31 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Kainan in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kainan 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 877 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.