Meaning not yet researched.
Cason: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 291 in 2025. Its best rank was #424 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #424 in 2014; #846 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Cason in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#846 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #424.
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Cason: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 291 boys in 2025. Peak: #424 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 725 (2014).
In 2025, 291 US boys were named Cason, making it the 846th most common boys’ name of the year, up 8 places from #854 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 284 boys named Cason in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #424, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 725. For comparison, it was #461 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cason in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 7 babies. In all, 11,388 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,931 babies named Cason.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,188 US boys were named Cason; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 655. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,870 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cason ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #335 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kayson (15,487 babies since 1880), Kason (14,951 babies since 1880), Kasen (11,538 babies since 1880) and Kaison (7,198 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Caisyn, Caesyn and Casian are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Caisyn (240), Caesyn (82), Casian (14), Cassin (13).
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 Cason 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 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 15 | #335 | #258 |
| Alabama | 14 | #378 | #237 |
| Tennessee | 17 | #457 | #286 |
| Georgia | 23 | #465 | #199 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #473 | #342 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #498 | #170 |
| Kansas | 6 | #536 | #525 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #599 | #277 |
| Texas | 47 | #640 | #313 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #653 | #530 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #678 | #312 |
| Virginia | 10 | #680 | #471 |
| Missouri | 7 | #728 | #376 |
| Colorado | 6 | #776 | #460 |
| Florida | 19 | #779 | #380 |
| Ohio | 10 | #813 | #443 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,023 | #469 |
| California | 10 | #1,611 | #881 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,380 | 291 | #846 |
| 2024 | — | — | 284 | #854 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,653 | 319 | #790 |
| 2022 | — | — | 323 | #785 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,731 | 372 | #706 |
| 2020 | — | — | 395 | #667 |
| 2019 | — | — | 467 | #592 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,168 | 510 | #547 |
| 2017 | — | — | 572 | #508 |
| 2016 | — | — | 655 | #466 |
| 2015 | — | — | 659 | #461 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,954 | 725 | #424 |
| 2013 | — | — | 686 | #427 |
| 2012 | — | — | 587 | #466 |
| 2011 | — | — | 511 | #507 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,552 | 543 | #480 |
| 2009 | — | — | 489 | #539 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,127 | 449 | #574 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,868 | 318 | #721 |
| 2006 | — | — | 282 | #750 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,283 | 232 | #814 |
| 2004 | — | — | 222 | #811 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,228 | 175 | #937 |
| 2002 | — | — | 171 | #940 |
| 2001 | — | — | 149 | #1,008 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,471 | 98 | #1,315 |
| 1999 | — | — | 108 | #1,189 |
| 1998 | — | — | 68 | #1,561 |
| 1997 | — | — | 63 | #1,603 |
| 1996 | — | — | 63 | #1,577 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,897 | 60 | #1,561 |
| 1994 | — | — | 32 | #2,399 |
| 1993 | — | — | 33 | #2,300 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,627 | 32 | #2,316 |
| 1991 | — | — | 30 | #2,350 |
| 1990 | — | — | 24 | #2,708 |
| 1989 | — | — | 43 | #1,770 |
| 1988 | — | — | 26 | #2,312 |
| 1987 | — | — | 20 | #2,649 |
| 1986 | — | — | 25 | #2,231 |
| 1985 | — | — | 31 | #1,872 |
| 1984 | — | — | 25 | #2,107 |
| 1983 | — | — | 24 | #2,148 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,729 | 20 | #2,439 |
| 1981 | — | — | 13 | #3,243 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,649 |
| 1979 | — | — | 14 | #3,029 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #3,903 |
| 1977 | — | — | 17 | #2,572 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,060 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #3,998 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,354 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,122 |
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).