Kane — #431 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kane

The Social Security Administration has registered 18,818 babies named Kane between 1953 and 2024, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kane currently holds the #431 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 1,054 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kane performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 7,031 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Kane shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,770 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Kane in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kane 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 18,818 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.