Caines

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from Cahaignes (Eure) or Cahagnes (Calvados); first attested William de Cahaignes, de Cahanges 1086 DB

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈkeɪnz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Caines is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Bermuda it is the 21st most common surname.

rarermore common
  • CACanada≈1 in 45K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 75K
  • USUnited States1 in 143K

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)

2,320 people, 2010

Sources
271 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 151 (inferred from the name graph)

St. Kitts & Nevis

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from Cahaignes (Eure) or Cahagnes (Calvados); first attested William de Cahaignes, de Cahanges 1086 DB

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Where in the world(measured from records)

Caines 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.

Where Caines is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2,3201 in 143K2.3KCaines271
GB United Kingdom—≈880 est.≈1 in 75K—Caines126
CA Canada—≈840 est.≈1 in 45K—Caines126
GH Ghana—≈480 est.≈1 in 61K—Caines4
KN St. Kitts & Nevis—3571 in 151441—15
JM Jamaica—≈75 est.≈1 in 38K—Caines2
GY Guyana—501 in 15K50—2
BM Bermuda#21≈16 est.≈1 in 4.4K—Caines14
DM Dominica—41 in 19K4——

2,320 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; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; The page provides a list of the 50 most common surnames in Saint Kitts and Nevis, published by Apellidos del mundo.; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Caines is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Dominican Republic, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Kuens

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Caines 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, genitive 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)

1850190019502000Eleanor Caines, b. 1880Jeannette Caines, b. 1937Gavin Caines, b. 1983

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)

FormalDear Caines,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Caines
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.3K#13,177
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.1K#13,798
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.9K#14,457
KN St. Kitts & NevisSt Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 20262026357#23
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 2025202550#575
DM DominicaDominica — Revised List of Electors May 202520254#223
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Caines mean, and where does it come from?
from Cahaignes (Eure) or Cahagnes (Calvados); first attested William de Cahaignes, de Cahanges 1086 DB Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
How do you pronounce Caines?
A machine transcription gives /ˈkeɪnz/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Caines have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Caines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caines.
Where is Caines most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Caines is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 151 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Caines?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,320 people named Caines in 2010, about 1 in 143 thousand residents.
How common is Caines compared with other names?
In Bermuda, Caines is the 21st most common surname of 6,699 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Caines” — the 21st most common surname in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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