Kane
Kane was given to 695 boys in 2025, #451 among boys’ names; 19,557 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 19,200 Americans named Kane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% 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 Kane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kane?
#451 among boys’ names, 2025
Kane fell from #428 in 2015 to #451 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.37 to 0.41 per 1,000.
1,055 babies in 2018, the peak
Kane peaked in 2018, when 1,055 boys were given it, #319 among boys’ names. The 695 births of 2025 are 66% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 695 | #451 | 0.41 |
| 2024 | 734 | #431 | 0.43 |
| 2023 | 793 | #402 | 0.46 |
| 2022 | 911 | #361 | 0.52 |
| 2021 | 1,001 | #329 | 0.57 |
| 2020 | 965 | #337 | 0.56 |
| 2019 | 1,004 | #334 | 0.56 |
| 2018 | 1,055 | #319 | 0.58 |
| 2017 | 944 | #354 | 0.51 |
| 2016 | 794 | #402 | 0.42 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 716 | #428 | 0.37 |
| 2014 | 597 | #477 | 0.31 |
| 2013 | 487 | #544 | 0.26 |
| 2012 | 477 | #547 | 0.25 |
| 2011 | 512 | #506 | 0.27 |
| 2010 | 449 | #565 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 536 | #503 | 0.27 |
| 2008 | 654 | #438 | 0.32 |
| 2007 | 381 | #640 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 311 | #705 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 282 | #722 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 276 | #701 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 275 | #695 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 304 | #640 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 322 | #609 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 333 | #594 | 0.17 |
| 1999 | 323 | #592 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 350 | #563 | 0.18 |
| 1997 | 259 | #643 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 253 | #658 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 259 | #647 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 276 | #627 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 201 | #733 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 118 | #998 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 102 | #1,074 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 111 | #999 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 102 | #1,017 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 108 | #920 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 95 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 88 | #984 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 68 | #1,128 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 47 | #1,388 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,137 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 60 | #1,203 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,214 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 47 | #1,384 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 52 | #1,281 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 48 | #1,313 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,133 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,326 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 43 | #1,331 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 60 | #1,070 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 62 | #1,029 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 30 | #1,584 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 37 | #1,409 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 35 | #1,426 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 27 | #1,584 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,070 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,204 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,094 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,126 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 17 | #2,015 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 21 | #1,770 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 23 | #1,692 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,803 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,493 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,476 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,217 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,560 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #1,981 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,366 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,162 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,621 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kane has been given almost only to boys: 36 girls in 73 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kane, and how old are they?
19,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 19,557 Americans ever recorded as Kane. The median Kane alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 13,411 people named Kane (236 women and girls, 13,175 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,447 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 123 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 541 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,940 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,950 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,600 |
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 Kane born?
The states with the most babies named Kane are California, Texas and Ohio, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 73 | #440 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 65 | #517 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 35 | #330 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 32 | #549 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 27 | #409 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | #406 | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 26 | #304 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 25 | #357 | 1.1× |
| New York | 20 | #731 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 20 | #528 | 0.8× |
Where Kane is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kane is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1953 it was given 1.9 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 Kane 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 31,482 babies since 1880, Kane is the most given (62% of them). In 2025 it was given to 695 of their 1,027 babies (68%), again the 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 Kane
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 Kane and names like it
- Compare Kane and KaineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKane peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kane since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Kane.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kane alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.