Caine

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Caine: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Caine: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #330 in 2001, and it stood at #3,688 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#330highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#406
1997	#410
1998	#412
1999	#499
2000	#364
2001	#330
2002	#502
2003	#599
2004	#678
2005	#827
2006	#863
2007	#848
2008	#894
2009	#868
2010	#1082
2011	#1909
2012	#1852
2013	#2055
2014	#2248
2015	#1442
2016	#2175
2017	#2052
2018	#2445
2019	#3937
2020	#2228
2021	#3451
2022	#3048
2023	#2160
2024	#3688

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2019: #764 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #3937 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #406 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #330 among boys in England and Wales, in 2001 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3688 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Caine appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 758 births with the name.

Caine across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Caine's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#406 (1996)	#330 (2001)	#3688 (2024)	29 of 29	758 (1996–2024)	80 (2001)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#451 (2002)	#451 (2002)	#764 (2019)	3 of 18	9 (2002–2019)	3 (2002)

Caine by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Caine in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	196	4 of 10	49
2000sbusiest	410	10 of 10	41
2010s	117	10 of 10	12
2020s	35	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 41 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2001 and 2002, when recorded births fell by 37, from 80 to 43.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Caine appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #330 in England and Wales in 2001.

Caine's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2160	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3048	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2228	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2445	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2052	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2175	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1442	17	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2248	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2055	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1852	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1909	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1082	25	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#868	32	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#894	30	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#848	31	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#863	28	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#827	28	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#678	35	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#599	37	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#502	43	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#330	80	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#364	66	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#499	40	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#412	53	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#410	52	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#406	51	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#720	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#451	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #330, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 80 births, registered in England and Wales in 2001.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 6 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Caira · #528, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aaran · #330, 30y
Fenton · #330, 29y
Arun · #331, 29y
Beverly · #331, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aaran · #330, 30y
Cade · #330, 30y
Cayla · #330, 24y
Henley · #330, 21y

Caine was ranked #330 in England and Wales · Boys in 2001. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Caine and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Caine without appearing here.

Caine moved ahead of

Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3451 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2160 and #4991.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2160 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #5119.
Courtney Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3937 and #3013 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #2228 and #3334.
Grant Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3451 and #2301 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3048 and #4001.

Moved ahead of Caine

Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2445 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3937 and #2104.
Matheo Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2445 and #2693 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3937 and #2488.
Anders Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2160 and #2546 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #2263.
Roger Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2160 and #3523 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #2263.

Moved the opposite way to Caine

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Caine went from #406 to #3688 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Caine went from #406 to #3688 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Caine went from #406 to #3688 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Caine went from #406 to #3688 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Caine

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Caine went from #406 to #3688 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Caine went from #406 to #3688 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Caine went from #406 to #3688 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Caine went from #406 to #3688 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #330 in England and Wales in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Caine

Caine at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Caine across 2 official records

Caine by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Caine across 2 official records

Caine by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Caine and the names beside it

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