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Baine

Gender
Boy
Say it
BAYN
Origin
Scottish
US rank, 2025
#9,710 for boys

Baine is a boys' name of Scottish origin, meaning “fair, white”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).

What does Baine mean?

Scottish: variant of the surname Bain, from Gaelic

“fair, white”

From the Scottish surname Bain, from Gaelic ban 'fair, white', first a nickname for someone fair-haired.

Is Baine a girl's or a boy's name?

Baine is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Baine in the US?

Rank in 2025
9,710th among boys
Babies in 2025
7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Baine, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,616th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 31 boys. It first appears in the records in 2000.

Half of all the boys named Baine in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 50 boys in the US were given Baine or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,210, up from #9,710 for this spelling alone.

2000Busiest: 31 in 20132025
Baine in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20257#9,710
20246#10,930
20230–
20227#9,815
20217#9,709
202012#6,616
201913#6,401
201812#6,699
201713#6,334
201619#4,941
201515#5,742
201429#3,615
201331#3,403
201218#5,030
201112#6,572
20100–
20097#9,859
20085#12,546
200711#7,090
20068#8,726
20050–
20040–
20035#10,886
20025#10,660
20016#9,236
20005#10,341

Names like Baine

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Baine

Names related to Baine

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Baine: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/baine, updated 20 October 2026.