Cainan
- #3,513 for boys in 2025, 32 births
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 47 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,024since 1981
Cainan over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Cainan has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,513 | 32 |
| 2024 | #3,272 | 36 |
| 2023 | #3,883 | 28 |
| 2022 | #3,216 | 37 |
| 2021 | #4,247 | 24 |
| 2020 | #3,811 | 27 |
| 2019 | #2,808 | 44 |
| 2018 | #3,301 | 34 |
| 2017 | #2,891 | 41 |
| 2016 | #2,626 | 47 |
| 2015 | #3,022 | 38 |
| 2014 | #4,263 | 23 |
| 2013 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2011 | #4,110 | 24 |
| 2010 | #3,239 | 34 |
| 2009 | #3,045 | 38 |
| 2008 | #3,744 | 28 |
| 2007 | #2,920 | 40 |
| 2006 | #2,832 | 40 |
| 2005 | #4,062 | 22 |
| 2004 | #2,697 | 39 |
| 2003 | #2,847 | 34 |
| 2002 | #3,670 | 23 |
| 2001 | #3,842 | 21 |
| 2000 | #3,423 | 24 |
| 1999 | #3,031 | 27 |
| 1998 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #3,064 | 24 |
| 1996 | #5,187 | 11 |
| 1995 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
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| 1985 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #3,630 | 11 |
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| 1981 | #4,153 | 9 |
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First appearance
1981
The first year at least five boys were named Cainan! It came in at #4,153, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1982, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Cainan is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Cainan in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 241 spots since 2024 (#3,272 → #3,513)
- 298 spots since 2020 (#3,811 → #3,513)
- 491 spots since 2015 (#3,022 → #3,513)
Rise & fade · boys
35 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2016 at #2,626 (47 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 40,377
- Highest: 1 in 40,377 boys born in 2016 were named Cainan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 53,377 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 33.0% of all boys named Cainan (338) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 52 | #3,630 (1983) | #5,338 |
| 1990s | 141 | #3,031 (1999) | #4,838 |
| 2000s | 309 | #2,697 (2004) | #3,308 |
| 2010s | 338 | #2,626 (2016) | #3,409 |
| 2020s | 184 | #3,216 (2022) | #3,657 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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