Kayne
given name · Latin script
Meaning: elaborated spelling of Cain
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkeɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kayne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 177K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 220K
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
- 233 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
1,876 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
elaborated spelling of Cain.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kayne 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 | 1,876 | 1 in 177K | 1.8K | Kayne | 233 |
| AU Australia | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 3 | Kayne | 104 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 220K | 3 | Kayne | 89 |
| BR Brazil | 261 | 1 in 811K | 261 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 241 | 1 in 72K | 241 | Kayne | 12 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 11 | Kayne | 67 |
1,876 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kayne Scottb. 1968NZNew Zealand racing driver
- Kayne Vincentb. 1988NZNew Zealand association football player
- Kayne Lawtonb. 1989AUAustralian rugby league footballer
- Kayne McLaggonb. 1990GBWelsh association football player (born 1990)
- Kayne Hammingtonb. 1990NZNew Zealand rugby union player
- Kayne Turnerb. 1995AUAustralian rules footballer
- Kayne Kalacheb. 1998AULebanon international rugby league player
- Kayne Ramsayb. 2000GBEnglish association football player
- Kayne Bonnevieb. 2001FRFrench footballer
- Kayne van Oevelenb. 2003NLDutch association football player (born 2003)
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)
Attested in 29 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 484 | #47,272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 472 | #45,347 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 428 | #46,758 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Is Kayne a male or female name?
- Kayne 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.
- What does the name Kayne mean, and where does it come from?
- elaborated spelling of Cain. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kayne?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkeɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kayne have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Kayne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kayne.
- How common is the name Kayne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,876 people named Kayne in 2020, about 1 in 177 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kayneThe 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, “Kayne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.