Cainan Boy
How popular is Cainan?
#3,512 boy name in 2025
32 baby boys were named Cainan in the US in 2025, making it the 3512th most popular boy name.
Cainan popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #3,512 for boys (▼ 242 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 32 boys |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-16% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #3,021 in 2015, #3,808 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2016 (47 boys) |
| Highest rank | #2,625 in 2016 |
| First recorded | 1981 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 100% boys, 0% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Cainan counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Cannon family of names ranked #299 for boys in 2025 (#310 the year before), with 1,137 babies in all.
| Spelling | Boys in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Cannon | 374 | 33% |
| Kannon | 263 | 23% |
| Kanan | 194 | 17% |
| Canon | 64 | 6% |
| Kanon | 29 | 3% |
| Kainen | 41 | 4% |
| Kainan | 29 | 3% |
| Cainan | 32 | 3% |
| Kanen | 18 | 2% |
| Cainen | 11 | 1% |
| Kaynen | 7 | 1% |
| Kannan | 17 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Cainan is most popular
Babies named Cainan per 1,000 boys born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
Cainan by decade
Boy names about as popular as Cainan
Questions
- Is Cainan a boy or girl name?
- Cainan is mostly a boy name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Cainan were boys.
- How popular is the name Cainan?
- 32 baby boys were named Cainan in the US in 2025, making it the 3512th most popular boy name.
- When was Cainan most popular?
- Cainan peaked in 2016, when 47 boys were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,625 in 2016.
- How many people are named Cainan?
- 1,024 babies have been named Cainan in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,010 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 16.
- Where is Cainan most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Cainan was most common in Ohio, at 0.0 of every 1,000 boys born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.