Meaning not yet researched.
Kacen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 109 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,012 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,012 in 2019; #1,566 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kacen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,566 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #1,012.
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Kacen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 109 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,012 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 206 (2019).
In 2025, 109 US boys were named Kacen, making it the 1,566th most common boys’ name of the year, up 344 places from #1,910 in 2024. That is 26 more than the 83 boys named Kacen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,012, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 206. For comparison, it was #1,661 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kacen in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 6 babies. In all, 1,675 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 944 babies named Kacen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,127 US boys were named Kacen; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 206. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,670 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kacen ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #803 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kason (14,951 babies since 1880), Kasen (11,538 babies since 1880), Kaysen (7,075 babies since 1880) and Casen (6,655 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaceyon and Kaceion 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: Kaceyon (137), Kaceion (46).
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 Kacen 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 5 | #803 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #816 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #861 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #984 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,040 | #955 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,169 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,368 | — |
| Texas | 11 | #1,607 | #1,174 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,962 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,629 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 109 | #1,566 |
| 2024 | — | — | 83 | #1,910 |
| 2023 | — | — | 67 | #2,161 |
| 2022 | — | — | 99 | #1,712 |
| 2021 | — | — | 109 | #1,587 |
| 2020 | — | — | 130 | #1,365 |
| 2019 | — | — | 206 | #1,012 |
| 2018 | — | — | 145 | #1,272 |
| 2017 | — | — | 105 | #1,561 |
| 2016 | — | — | 74 | #1,963 |
| 2015 | — | — | 95 | #1,661 |
| 2014 | — | — | 88 | #1,720 |
| 2013 | — | — | 66 | #2,054 |
| 2012 | — | — | 77 | #1,889 |
| 2011 | — | — | 48 | #2,564 |
| 2010 | — | — | 40 | #2,937 |
| 2009 | — | — | 31 | #3,517 |
| 2008 | — | — | 23 | #4,326 |
| 2007 | — | — | 18 | #5,107 |
| 2006 | — | — | 17 | #5,190 |
| 2005 | — | — | 9 | #7,981 |
| 2004 | — | — | 13 | #5,977 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,309 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #9,905 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #9,689 |
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).