Meaning not yet researched.
Case: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 359 in 2025. Its best rank was #468 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #468 in 2014; #733 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Case in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#733 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #468.
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Case: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 359 boys in 2025. Peak: #468 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 623 (2014).
In 2025, 359 US boys were named Case, making it the 733rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 10 places from #723 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 364 boys named Case in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #468, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 623. For comparison, it was #542 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Case in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 5 babies. In all, 9,926 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,926 babies named Case.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,478 US boys were named Case; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 560. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,758 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Case ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #313 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cash (27,840 babies since 1880), Kash (17,649 babies since 1880) and Kase (4,849 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Case in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 15 | #313 | #223 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #354 | #227 |
| Utah | 12 | #384 | #422 |
| Kentucky | 12 | #408 | #249 |
| Alabama | 12 | #427 | #265 |
| Tennessee | 18 | #433 | #484 |
| Missouri | 13 | #463 | #278 |
| Ohio | 22 | #475 | #449 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #511 | #673 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #536 | #339 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #538 | #390 |
| Texas | 57 | #556 | #319 |
| Iowa | 5 | #591 | #387 |
| Georgia | 16 | #630 | #519 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #656 | #730 |
| Arizona | 9 | #678 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #711 | #712 |
| Indiana | 8 | #720 | #375 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #724 | #529 |
| Florida | 21 | #732 | #917 |
| Illinois | 10 | #814 | #787 |
| Colorado | 5 | #869 | #812 |
| Michigan | 7 | #921 | #440 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,119 | #901 |
| California | 10 | #1,610 | #1,128 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 359 | #733 |
| 2024 | — | — | 364 | #723 |
| 2023 | — | — | 372 | #715 |
| 2022 | — | — | 426 | #650 |
| 2021 | — | — | 438 | #629 |
| 2020 | — | — | 482 | #576 |
| 2019 | — | — | 517 | #544 |
| 2018 | — | — | 560 | #508 |
| 2017 | — | — | 442 | #601 |
| 2016 | — | — | 518 | #554 |
| 2015 | — | — | 527 | #542 |
| 2014 | — | — | 623 | #468 |
| 2013 | — | — | 531 | #507 |
| 2012 | — | — | 527 | #505 |
| 2011 | — | — | 352 | #671 |
| 2010 | — | — | 329 | #708 |
| 2009 | — | — | 250 | #854 |
| 2008 | — | — | 207 | #966 |
| 2007 | — | — | 211 | #940 |
| 2006 | — | — | 196 | #949 |
| 2005 | — | — | 147 | #1,117 |
| 2004 | — | — | 139 | #1,133 |
| 2003 | — | — | 117 | #1,233 |
| 2002 | — | — | 136 | #1,090 |
| 2001 | — | — | 94 | #1,357 |
| 2000 | — | — | 86 | #1,432 |
| 1999 | — | — | 92 | #1,311 |
| 1998 | — | — | 75 | #1,479 |
| 1997 | — | — | 75 | #1,439 |
| 1996 | — | — | 64 | #1,553 |
| 1995 | — | — | 47 | #1,844 |
| 1994 | — | — | 40 | #2,049 |
| 1993 | — | — | 37 | #2,128 |
| 1992 | — | — | 36 | #2,134 |
| 1991 | — | — | 28 | #2,477 |
| 1990 | — | — | 38 | #1,976 |
| 1989 | — | — | 37 | #1,956 |
| 1988 | — | — | 35 | #1,883 |
| 1987 | — | — | 36 | #1,796 |
| 1986 | — | — | 36 | #1,730 |
| 1985 | — | — | 31 | #1,871 |
| 1984 | — | — | 30 | #1,847 |
| 1983 | — | — | 22 | #2,282 |
| 1982 | — | — | 21 | #2,348 |
| 1981 | — | — | 15 | #2,917 |
| 1980 | — | — | 16 | #2,847 |
| 1979 | — | — | 12 | #3,387 |
| 1978 | — | — | 13 | #3,087 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,224 |
| 1976 | — | — | 17 | #2,520 |
| 1975 | — | — | 11 | #3,273 |
| 1974 | — | — | 14 | #2,686 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,753 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,188 |
| 1971 | — | — | 15 | #2,474 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,307 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,646 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,415 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,042 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #3,991 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,660 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,127 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,695 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,116 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,070 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).