Kainon
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KAY-nen
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Kainon is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
Where does Kainon come from?
Modern: spelling of Kainen; modern coinage, perhaps a variant of Kenan (Cainan)
Meaning borrowed from Kainen.
Is Kainon a girl's or a boy's name?
Kainon 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 Kainon 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 Kainon, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 21 boys. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the boys named Kainon in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 417 boys in the US were given Kainon or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #629, up from #9,710 for this spelling alone.
Kainon in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,699 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,590 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,344 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,061 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,797 |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,859 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,464 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,104 |
Names like Kainon
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kayden, Deacon, Brecken, Finnegan, Rayden, Cannon, Kyaire, Braylen, Kyden, Declan, Keegan, Finn
Other spellings of Kainon
Kanan, Kanaan, Kainen, Cainan, Kainan, Kaynan, Kanen, Cainen, Kaynen, Kaenan, Cannan
Names related to Kainon
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn
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, “Kainon: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kainon, updated 20 October 2026.