Kane
Top 1000
About Kane
A name of multiple identities: a somewhat soap-operatic single-syllable surname, a homonym for the biblical bad boy Cain, and, when found in Japan and Hawaii, it transforms into the two syllable KA-neh. Kane also has multiple meanings: in Welsh, it's "beautiful"; in Japanese, "golden"; and in Hawaiian, "man of the Eastern sky."
Pronounced KAYN.
As of October 2026, Kane ranked #451 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #319 in 2018, Nameberry popularity #321.
Editor: Sophie Kihm
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #478 | 595 | 309.8 |
| 2015 | #428 | 716 | 373.6 |
| 2016 | #401 | 794 | 418.4 |
| 2017 | #354 | 944 | 510 |
| 2018 | #319 | 1,054 | 580.3 |
| 2019 | #334 | 1,003 | 559 |
| 2020 | #337 | 965 | 559.1 |
| 2021 | #329 | 1,001 | 572.2 |
| 2022 | #361 | 911 | 521.8 |
| 2023 | #402 | 792 | 463 |
| 2024 | #431 | 731 | 424.3 |
| 2025 | #451 | 695 | 406.9 |
World rankings
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Kane on lists
Famous Kanes
- Miles Kane
British musician
- Kane Warren Hodder
American actor
- Kane Thompson
Samoan Rugby Union Player
- Kane
ring name of Glenn Thomas Jacobs, American pro wrestler
- Kane Allen Brown
American country singer
- Kane Stuart Williamson
New Zealand Cricketer
- Kane Alexander Rossi (b. 2015)
son of American actor and producer Theo Rossi
- Kane Atwood (b. 2011)
son of American YouTuber Roman Atwood
- Robert "Bob" Kane
American comic book artist who created Batman
- Harry Kane
striker/captain of the England national football (soccer) team and Tottenham Hotspur
Kane in pop culture
- "Citizen Kane
" film about main character Charles Foster Kane
- Kane Bullard
character in video game 'Ace Attorney'
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character on Australian TV's "House Husbands"
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character in video game "Spyro the Dragon"
- The Kane Chronicles
series by Rick Riordan
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character in the "Command and Conquer" video game series
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former rockband from the Netherlands
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character in film "Annihilation"