Kayne
Kayne was given to 49 boys in 2025, #2,666 among boys’ names; 2,405 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,360 Americans named Kayne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kayne?
#2,666 among boys’ names, 2025
Kayne fell from #2,006 in 2015 to #2,666 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 37.6 to 28.7 per million.
119 babies in 2008, the peak
Kayne peaked in 2008, when 119 boys were given it, #1,418 among boys’ names. The 49 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #2,666 | 28.7 |
| 2024 | 45 | #2,854 | 26.1 |
| 2023 | 55 | #2,456 | 32.2 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,362 | 34.4 |
| 2021 | 85 | #1,829 | 48.6 |
| 2020 | 105 | #1,565 | 60.8 |
| 2019 | 87 | #1,781 | 48.5 |
| 2018 | 110 | #1,543 | 60.6 |
| 2017 | 81 | #1,837 | 43.8 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,058 | 36.4 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 72 | #2,006 | 37.6 |
| 2014 | 73 | #1,972 | 38.0 |
| 2013 | 79 | #1,819 | 41.8 |
| 2012 | 105 | #1,528 | 55.4 |
| 2011 | 87 | #1,711 | 45.8 |
| 2010 | 93 | #1,672 | 48.5 |
| 2009 | 108 | #1,533 | 54.4 |
| 2008 | 119 | #1,418 | 58.3 |
| 2007 | 101 | #1,558 | 48.7 |
| 2006 | 70 | #1,932 | 34.1 |
| 2005 | 64 | #1,969 | 32.0 |
| 2004 | 62 | #1,961 | 31.2 |
| 2003 | 38 | #2,651 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 37 | #2,615 | 19.1 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,102 | 14.9 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,104 | 24.4 |
| 1999 | 53 | #1,870 | 27.6 |
| 1998 | 49 | #1,969 | 25.6 |
| 1997 | 33 | #2,474 | 17.5 |
| 1996 | 38 | #2,198 | 20.1 |
| 1995 | 38 | #2,153 | 20.0 |
| 1994 | 43 | #1,947 | 22.3 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,920 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,672 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,868 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,596 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,909 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,789 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,753 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,330 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,511 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,773 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,204 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,022 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,218 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,321 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,789 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,492 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,680 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,561 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,040 | 7.6 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,289 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,497 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kayne has been given almost only to boys: 15 girls in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kayne, and how old are they?
2,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,405 Americans ever recorded as Kayne. The median Kayne alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,876 people named Kayne (110 women and girls, 1,766 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,003 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 55 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 252 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 963 |
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 Kayne born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,433 | 0.6× |
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 Kayne 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 30,840 babies since 1880, Kayne is the third most given (7.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 989 babies (5.0%), the fourth 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 Kayne
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Maximilian | 18,940 | |
| Aleksander | 4,166 | |
| Mohamed | 19,350 | |
| Edin | 1,385 | |
| Immanuel | 6,146 | |
| Kain | 3,750 |
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 Kayne and names like it
- Compare Kayne and KaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKayne peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kayne since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kayne.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kayne alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.