boys:
3.5k births since 1973
#2092 (54th percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 1973
#4597 (41st percentile)
The name Kain is the #4,597 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,545 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 40.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,092 (54.4% percentile) for all time with 3,545 births since 1973.
Kain first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (first recorded for boys in 1973). Birth data for Kain is available in 49 out of the 51 years between 1973 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Kain reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 19.0% percentile (ranked #746) with 89 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 89 births per million (ranked 19.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kain ranks #812 for boys (10.9% percentile) with 57 births per million, which is 63.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kain".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kain. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.2% confident that Kain is pronounced as kayn, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kain, at 9.8% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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