Kainen
Kainen was given to 41 boys in 2025, #3,018 among boys’ names; 1,316 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,300 Americans named Kainen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kainen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kainen?
#3,018 among boys’ names, 2025
Kainen fell from #2,286 in 2015 to #3,018 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 30.3 to 24.0 per million.
100 babies in 2018, the peak
Kainen peaked in 2018, when 100 boys were given it, #1,634 among boys’ names. The 41 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,018 | 24.0 |
| 2024 | 31 | #3,645 | 18.0 |
| 2023 | 48 | #2,716 | 28.1 |
| 2022 | 54 | #2,538 | 30.9 |
| 2021 | 60 | #2,310 | 34.3 |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,058 | 40.0 |
| 2019 | 90 | #1,744 | 50.2 |
| 2018 | 100 | #1,634 | 55.1 |
| 2017 | 87 | #1,773 | 47.0 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,075 | 35.8 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,286 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | 34 | #3,266 | 17.7 |
| 2013 | 40 | #2,867 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 36 | #3,138 | 19.0 |
| 2011 | 51 | #2,457 | 26.9 |
| 2010 | 48 | #2,567 | 25.0 |
| 2009 | 46 | #2,681 | 23.2 |
| 2008 | 42 | #2,855 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,743 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,562 | 14.1 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,771 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,581 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,319 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,404 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,454 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,287 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,898 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,102 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,350 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,918 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,374 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,951 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,134 | 3.1 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,541 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kainen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kainen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kainen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kainen, and how old are they?
1,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,316 Americans ever recorded as Kainen. The median Kainen alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 867 people named Kainen (9 women and girls, 858 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,021 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 45 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 482 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 774 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,214 babies since 1880, Kainen is the seventh most given (6.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 1,014 babies (4.0%), 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 Kainen
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 Kainen and names like it
- Compare Kainen and KannonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKainen peaked in 2018.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kainen since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Kainen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kainen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.