# Kane (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kane/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 19,557 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 19,521 / 36 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 7,204, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | 11,253 |
| 1985 | 8 | 7,899 |
| 1990 | 5 | 13,995 |
| 1993 | 6 | 12,549 |
| 2019 | 7 | 13,094 |
| 2022 | 5 | 16,471 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 512 | 506 |
| 2012 | 477 | 547 |
| 2013 | 487 | 544 |
| 2014 | 597 | 477 |
| 2015 | 716 | 428 |
| 2016 | 794 | 402 |
| 2017 | 944 | 354 |
| 2018 | 1,055 | 319 |
| 2019 | 1,004 | 334 |
| 2020 | 965 | 337 |
| 2021 | 1,001 | 329 |
| 2022 | 911 | 361 |
| 2023 | 793 | 402 |
| 2024 | 734 | 431 |
| 2025 | 695 | 451 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 194 | 248 |
| 2012 | 113 | 372 |
| 2013 | 141 | 309 |
| 2014 | 101 | 402 |
| 2015 | 120 | 368 |
| 2016 | 119 | 380 |
| 2017 | 101 | 428 |
| 2018 | 109 | 396 |
| 2019 | 78 | 501 |
| 2020 | 76 | 500 |
| 2021 | 74 | 526 |
| 2022 | 77 | 509 |
| 2023 | 59 | 608 |
| 2024 | 52 | 691 |
| 2025 | 55 | 658 |

## People named Kane

- Kane Hodder, American actor and stunt performer
- Kane Parsons, American filmmaker
- Kane Brown, American country music singer
- Kane Kosugi, American actor
- Kane Richardson, cricketer
- Kane Kramer, British businessman
- Kane Douglas, Australian rugby union player
- Kano, English rapper, songwriter and actor
- iDubbbz, American YouTuber

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.