Caine
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Caine is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): IoM. see Cain .
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 44K
- CACanada≈1 in 66K
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)
- Sources
- 332 (measured from records)
- 1 in 497 (inferred from the name graph)
4,343 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): IoM. see Cain .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Caine 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 | 4,343 | 1 in 77K | 4.3K | Caine | 332 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Caine | 157 |
| AU Australia | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 3 | Caine | 105 |
| CA Canada | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 1 | Caine | 102 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Caine | 31 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 204 | 1 in 497 | 204 | — | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 13 | Caine | 29 |
| IS Iceland | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 1 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 4 | 1 in 28K | 4 | — | 1 |
4,343 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; 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); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Caine is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ang, dative singular of Cain
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)
- William Caineb. 1799IEBritish colonial administrator (1798-1871)
- Hall Caineb. 1853GBBritish novelist and playwright (1853-1931)
- Georgia Caineb. 1876USAmerican actress (1876-1964)
- Howard Caineb. 1926USAmerican actor (1926–1993)
- Michael Caineb. 1933GBEnglish actor (born 1933)
- Jeffrey Caineb. 1944GBBritish screenwriter
- Shakira Caineb. 1947GYGuyanese-British model and actress
- Uri Caineb. 1956USAmerican pianist and composer (born 1956)
- Rachel Caineb. 1962USAmerican author
- Dan Caineb. 1968USU.S. Air Force general (born 1968)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.3K | #7,647 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.2K | #7,552 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.1K | #7,544 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 204 | #92 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 4 | #219 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Caine mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): IoM. see Cain . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How common is the name Caine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,343 people named Caine in 2010, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
- In which country does Caine have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Caine, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caine.
- Where is Caine most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Caine is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 497 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caineThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Caine”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.