girls:
36 births since 1982
#5680 (1st percentile)
boys:
18.1k births since 1953
#853 (81st percentile)
overall:
18.1k births since 1953
#1914 (75th percentile)
The name Kane is the #1,914 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,119 recorded births since 1953. This represents the 75.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #853 (81.4% percentile) for all time with 18,083 births since 1953. For girls, it ranks #5,680 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 1982.
Kane first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1953 (1953 for boys and 1982 for girls).
The name Kane has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kane reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 66.3% percentile (ranked #308) with 542 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 542 births per million (ranked 66.3% percentile). Despite a peak around 2012, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Kane ranks #371 for boys (59.3% percentile) with 433 births per million, which is 79.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kane reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #797) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kane".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kane is pronounced as kayn, which has 1 syllables.
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