Kane

Where Kane comes from

Kane hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1953
    First appearance
    #2,531 among boys, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1955
    Kane Hodder born
    American actor and stunt performer
  3. 2005
    Kane Parsons born
    American filmmaker
  4. 2018
    Peak, #319
    1,055 babies named Kane — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kane Hodder · American actor and stunt performer, born 1955
  • Kane Parsons · American filmmaker, born 2005
  • Kane Brown · American country music singer, born 1993
  • Kane Williamson · New Zealand cricketer, born 1990
  • Kane Kosugi · American actor, born 1974

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.