Kainen — #3639 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kainen

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,275 babies named Kainen between 1989 and 2024, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kainen currently holds the #3639 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 100 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kainen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 612 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kainen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 30 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Indiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Kainen in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kainen 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 1,275 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.