Kainan Boy
How popular is Kainan?
#3,756 boy name in 2025
29 baby boys were named Kainan in the US in 2025, making it the 3756th most popular boy name.
Kainan popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #3,756 for boys (▼ 799 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 29 boys |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-9% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #3,430 in 2015, #3,024 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2018 (72 boys) |
| Highest rank | #2,016 in 2018 |
| First recorded | 1992 |
| 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 |
Kainan 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 Kainan is most popular
Babies named Kainan per 1,000 boys born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
Kainan by decade
Boy names about as popular as Kainan
Questions
- Is Kainan a boy or girl name?
- Kainan is mostly a boy name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Kainan were boys.
- How popular is the name Kainan?
- 29 baby boys were named Kainan in the US in 2025, making it the 3756th most popular boy name.
- When was Kainan most popular?
- Kainan peaked in 2018, when 72 boys were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,016 in 2018.
- How many people are named Kainan?
- 906 babies have been named Kainan in the US since 1880. We estimate about 898 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Kainan most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Kainan was most common in Kentucky, at 0.1 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.