Caín
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Cain (Biblical character)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/kain/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caín is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 5.5K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 5.5K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 5.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 479 (measured from records)
- 1 in 310 (inferred from the name graph)
60,948 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cain in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Cain (Biblical character)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Caín counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #465 | 60,948 | 1 in 5.5K | 61K | Cain | 479 |
| GB United Kingdom | #542 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 5 | Cain | 224 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Cain | 5 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Cain | 9 |
| CA Canada | #645 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 3 | Cain | 182 |
| AU Australia | #582 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 3 | Cain | 162 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 327 | 1 in 310 | 327 | — | 4 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Cain | 7 |
60,948 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Caín is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, first-person singular preterite indicative of caer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, fine, good
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, haze, fog
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Caïm Ribab. 1974ESnot in their usual nameSpanish musician
- Caín Farab. 1994ARArgentine association football player (1994-)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Caín mean, and where does it come from?
- Cain (Biblical character) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Caín?
- A machine transcription gives /kain/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Caín a male or female name?
- Caín is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Caín have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 61 thousand people named Caín, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cain.
- Where is Caín most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Caín is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 310 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Caín?
- In the United States, the national register counted 60,948 people named Caín in 2010, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Caín compared with other names?
- In the United States, Caín is the 465th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Caín?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ca%C3%ADnThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Caín” — the 465th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.