Kaine
Kaine was given to 126 boys in 2025, #1,432 among boys’ names; 3,621 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,570 Americans named Kaine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaine?
#1,432 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaine fell from #1,365 in 2015 to #1,432 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 66.8 to 73.8 per million.
200 babies in 2017, the peak
Kaine peaked in 2017, when 200 boys were given it, #1,014 among boys’ names. The 126 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 126 | #1,432 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,477 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 155 | #1,250 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 174 | #1,175 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 181 | #1,127 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 168 | #1,155 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 173 | #1,130 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 176 | #1,112 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 200 | #1,014 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 160 | #1,188 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 128 | #1,365 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 111 | #1,469 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 99 | #1,574 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 83 | #1,794 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 101 | #1,561 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 98 | #1,604 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 105 | #1,559 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,449 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 85 | #1,751 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 72 | #1,882 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 65 | #1,949 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 47 | #2,395 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 61 | #1,915 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 71 | #1,667 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 60 | #1,848 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 64 | #1,747 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 59 | #1,736 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,411 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 63 | #1,614 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 77 | #1,378 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 64 | #1,497 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 66 | #1,454 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,820 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,704 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,908 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,832 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,398 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,042 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,410 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,763 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,189 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,807 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,988 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,110 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,419 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,000 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,028 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,558 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,228 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,358 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaine has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaine, and how old are they?
3,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,621 Americans ever recorded as Kaine. The median Kaine alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,287 people named Kaine (33 women and girls, 2,254 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,701 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 65 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 333 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,960 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kaine born?
The states with the most babies named Kaine are Texas, California and Florida, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 20 | #1,119 | 0.8× |
| California | 14 | #1,331 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,410 | 0.6× |
| New York | 6 | #1,658 | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,190 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,443 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,372 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,102 | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 5 | #862 | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 5 | #978 | 0.2× |
Where Kaine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaine is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1973 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kaine with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 33,183 babies since 1880, Kaine is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 126 of their 1,062 babies (12%), again the second 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 Kaine
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 Kaine and names like it
- Compare Kaine and KaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKaine peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaine since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Kaine.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaine alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.