Cayne
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KAYN
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #6,442 for boys
Cayne is a boys' name of Irish origin, meaning “battle”. In 2025 it ranked 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).
What does Cayne mean?
Irish: spelling of Kayne, itself a spelling of Kane, from Ó Catháin
“battle”
A spelling of Kane, from the Irish surname Ó Catháin, based on cath 'battle'.
Meaning borrowed from Kayne.
Is Cayne a girl's or a boy's name?
Cayne is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cayne in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,442nd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 130,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 13 boys in the US were named Cayne, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,695th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 26 boys. It first appears in the records in 1993.
2025 had fewer boys named Cayne than any year since 2014.
Half of all the boys named Cayne in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,258 boys in the US were given Cayne or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #286, up from #6,442 for this spelling alone.
Cayne in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,063 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,882 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,870 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,490 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,695 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,476 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,522 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,097 |
| 2015 | 16 | #5,503 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,303 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,167 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,250 |
| 2011 | 18 | #4,981 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,032 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,917 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,918 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,431 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,521 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,572 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,514 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,449 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,236 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,202 |
| 1999 | 7 | #7,867 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,460 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,104 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,180 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,862 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,693 |
Names like Cayne
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Finn, Brayden, Ridge, Declan, Aiden, Ronan, Keegan, Finnegan, Kayden, Callan, Case, Cannon
Other spellings of Cayne
Names related to Cayne
More Irish names
Oscar, Rowan, Rory, Maeve, Ryan, Nolan, Quinn, Orla, Cody, Erin, Connor, Casey, Kennedy, Lennon, Cillian, Kevin
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, “Cayne: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cayne, updated 20 October 2026.