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Kayne

Gender
Boy
Say it
KAYN
Origin
Irish
US rank, 2025
#2,641 for boys

Kayne is a boys' name of Irish origin, meaning “battle”. In 2025 it ranked 2,641st for boys in the US (49 babies).

What does Kayne mean?

Irish: spelling of Kane, from Ó Catháin

“battle”

A spelling of Kane, from the Irish surname Ó Catháin, based on cath 'battle'.

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

Kayne is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 49 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kayne in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 64 boys.

Half of all the boys named Kayne in the UK since 1996 were born between 2001 and 2011. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier boys aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 64 in 20072024
Kayne in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20243#5,198
20236#3,279
20224#4,195
20217#2,886
20206#3,108
20197#2,878
20189#2,388
20176#3,191
201612#2,007
201518#1,476
201422#1,260
201326#1,112
201228#1,070
201138#859
201038#848
200935#882
200848#701
200764#553
200655#589
200547#620
200434#746
200311#1,498
200230#707
200137#576
200033#620
199923#782
199833#605
199733#585
199632#575

How popular is Kayne in the US?

Rank in 2025
#2,641among boys
Babies in 2025
49about 1 in 35,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 51% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 49 boys in the US were named Kayne, making it the 2,641st most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,563rd. Its busiest year was 2008, with 119 boys. It first appears in the records in 1970.

Half of all the boys named Kayne in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,258 boys in the US were given Kayne or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #286, up from #2,641 for this spelling alone.

1970Busiest: 119 in 20082025
Kayne in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202549#2,641
202445#2,835
202355#2,440
202260#2,354
202185#1,823
2020105#1,563
201987#1,777
2018110#1,539
201781#1,829
201669#2,047
201572#2,001
201473#1,958
201379#1,810
2012105#1,523
201187#1,703
201093#1,665
2009108#1,528
2008119#1,414
2007101#1,552
200670#1,918
200564#1,963
200462#1,949
200338#2,616
200237#2,599
200129#3,056
200048#2,083
199953#1,855
199849#1,954
199733#2,445
199638#2,178
199538#2,135
199443#1,922
199316#3,812
199217#3,597
199123#2,822
19909#5,375
198914#3,803
198813#3,700
19879#4,567
19866#5,920
19859#4,328
19848#4,549
19837#4,904
19826#5,617
19817#4,959
19809#4,133
19790–
19787#4,552
19776#5,121
19767#4,416
19757#4,307
197412#2,944
19737#4,052
19720–
19710–
19706#4,228

Names like Kayne

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

Finn Aiden Kian Kayden Declan Ronan Keegan Brody Kody Conan Keelan Brayden

Other spellings of Kayne

Kane Cain Kaine Kain Caine Cane Kayn Cayne

Names related to Kayne

Kayan Kyan Kayaan Keane Kayhan Kayen Kanen Kaynan

More Irish names

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Kayne: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kayne, updated 20 October 2026.