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Boy's name · #1142 in the US (2025) · 2010s wave
Cain's best rank, #727, came in 2014; it has settled back to #1142 today. Roughly 7,600 boys have been named Cain since 1910.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 22 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#314 in N. Ireland (2025) · #441 in Scotland (2025) · #676 in Ireland (2025) · #896 in Ecuador (2025) · #1,153 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,944 in Canada (2025) · #3,684 in France (2025) · #8,150 in Italy (2024) · #1,459 in Sweden (2024) · #316 in New Zealand (1998).
Among 30 notable people named Cain:
Sports figures appear 2.38× more often than among typical names — e.g. Cain Velasquez, American mixed martial arts fighter and professional wrestler (born 1982).
Together with its spelling variant Kain (#1738), Cain would rank around #862 with about 280 births last year — the newborns split about 66/34 between Cain and Kain.
Similar names: Caine · Ean · Chaim · Malaki · Canaan · Kalel
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