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Name meaning & stats

Cain

Cain (Hebrew origin). 7,511 US babies since 1940, peak 2014.

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What it means

No agreed meaning on record

Hebrew

In US birth records

Peak year: 2014

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7,511 US babies were named Cain between 1940 and 2025.

Careers

Not enough notable people named Cain (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.

Spelling family

The most common spelling: 30% of the family

Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.

Name twins (peaked around 2014)