Caine
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Caine is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In St. Vincent & Grenadines it is the 76th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Welsh, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): IoM. see Cain .
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 39K◐
- AUAustralia1 in 45K
- USUnited States1 in 77K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.6K ●
- Sources
- 291 ●
- 1 in 497 ◐
across 10 countries
53K records
Official registry-verified
St. Vincent & Grenadines
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Caïne in NL Netherlands.
Meaning & origin●
Main GB Location (1881): IoM. see Cain .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | 5,941 | 5.4K rec. | — | listed | Caine | 122 |
| US United States | — | 4,343 | 41K rec. | 1 in 77K | 4.3K | Caine | 291 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,862 | 2.9K rec. | — | 3 | Caine | 96 |
| CA Canada | — | 969 | 1K rec. | — | 1 | Caine | 76 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 210 | 244 rec. | — | — | Caine | 29 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | #76 | 204△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 497 | 204 | Caine | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 148 | 199 rec. | — | 13 | Caine | 26 |
| IT Italy | — | 146 | 167 rec. | — | — | Caine | 6 |
| RU Russia | — | 103 | 115 rec. | — | — | Caine | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 24 | 108 rec. | 1 in 2.1M | 24 | Caine | 16 |
| FR France | — | 15△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 4.5M | 15 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 12 | 78 rec. | — | 142 | Caïne | 19 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English46K78%
- Welsh2.7K5%
- French2K3%
- Spanish1.8K3%
- 1.5K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 46,456 | 78% |
| Welsh | 2,745 | 5% |
| French | 2,018 | 3% |
| Spanish | 1,827 | 3% |
| 1,456 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1971 | 6 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1973 | 44 |
| 1974 | 35 |
| 1975 | 12 |
| 1976 | 13 |
| 1977 | 11 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 13 |
| 1980 | 9 |
| 1981 | 15 |
| 1982 | 9 |
| 1983 | 8 |
| 1984 | 10 |
| 1985 | 14 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 11 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 17 |
| 1993 | 30 |
| 1994 | 58 |
| 1995 | 48 |
| 1996 | 47 |
| 1997 | 42 |
| 1998 | 44 |
| 1999 | 42 |
| 2000 | 45 |
| 2001 | 51 |
| 2002 | 43 |
| 2003 | 33 |
| 2004 | 33 |
| 2005 | 37 |
| 2006 | 44 |
| 2007 | 59 |
| 2008 | 89 |
| 2009 | 71 |
| 2010 | 46 |
| 2011 | 48 |
| 2012 | 49 |
| 2013 | 64 |
| 2014 | 62 |
| 2015 | 60 |
| 2016 | 53 |
| 2017 | 64 |
| 2018 | 59 |
| 2019 | 78 |
| 2020 | 75 |
| 2021 | 64 |
| 2022 | 76 |
| 2023 | 87 |
| 2024 | 63 |
| 2025 | 54 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 56 years between 1968–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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●
Attested in 41 sources across 22 countries.
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 2026-09-12 data build · 179 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Caine?
- We estimate roughly 4.6 thousand people bear Caine (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Caine have the most bearers?
- Caine is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, 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 Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Caine compared with other names?
- In St. Vincent & Grenadines, Caine is the 76th most common surname of 1,182 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Caine mean?
- Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): IoM. see Cain .
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Caine” — the 76th most common surname in St. Vincent & Grenadines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.