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The CAINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 419 47575 0 2
United States (1880 census) 133 25796 0 3
Change since 1880 +286 -21779 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 123 11847 0.001 8
United Kingdom 366 11128 0.001 8
Top States for CAINS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 67 20565 0.001 6
Kentucky 57 7135 0.001 14
Louisiana 49 10026 0.001 11
Indiana 43 16350 0.001 7
Texas 42 32531 0.000 2
Top States for CAINS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 57 7135 0.001 14
Louisiana 49 10026 0.001 11
West Virginia 16 9163 0.001 9
Indiana 43 16350 0.001 7
Ohio 67 20565 0.001 6

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CAINS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CAINS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CAINS in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CAINS by picking someone at random in Kentucky than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CAINS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CAINS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CAINS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CAINS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 299 71.36
Black/African American 92 21.96
White (Hispanic) 23 5.49
Mixed Race 5 1.19
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CAINS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CAINS in historical publications

CAINS. See Keynes.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CAINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAINS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CAINS

The following words are slight variants of CAINS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.