Kain

4,631 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kain in the 2020 census, making it the 6,993rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 64,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,631
Rank: 6,993rd
How common: 1 in 64,500
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kain described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Kain

John Joseph Kain (1841–1903)American Catholic archbishop

People named Kain with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Kain

Kaiser

Also a first name

Kain has been given to 3,750 American babies as a first name since 1973, peaking in 2016. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.