Meaning not yet researched.
Kasai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 437 in 2025. Its best rank was #639 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 98% of babies named Kasai in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#639 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Kasai: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 437 boys in 2025. Peak: #639 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 437 (2025).
In 2025, 437 US boys were named Kasai, making it the 639th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,108 places from #1,747 in 2024. That is 342 more than the 95 boys named Kasai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #639, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 437. For comparison, it was #5,876 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kasai in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 5 babies. In all, 1,083 US babies have been given the name, 1.7% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 762 babies named Kasai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 897 US boys were named Kasai; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 437. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,909 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kasai ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #118 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kaysa, Casai and Kazai are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kaysa (70), Casai (35), Kazai (23), Kasaii (14), Kassaia (8), Kahsai (7), Kasa (5).
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 Kasai 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 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 9 | #118 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #307 | — |
| Maryland | 14 | #377 | — |
| Michigan | 23 | #383 | — |
| Mississippi | 8 | #390 | — |
| South Carolina | 13 | #398 | — |
| Georgia | 27 | #420 | — |
| Nevada | 7 | #421 | — |
| Virginia | 19 | #423 | — |
| North Carolina | 25 | #439 | — |
| New York | 36 | #465 | — |
| Louisiana | 10 | #473 | — |
| New Jersey | 15 | #506 | — |
| Florida | 34 | #522 | — |
| Iowa | 6 | #541 | — |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #588 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #599 | — |
| Tennessee | 12 | #619 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #720 | — |
| Illinois | 11 | #775 | — |
| Ohio | 11 | #775 | — |
| Texas | 32 | #837 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #873 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #930 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #980 | — |
| California | 20 | #1,057 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,529 | 437 | #639 |
| 2024 | — | — | 95 | #1,747 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,353 | 64 | #2,235 |
| 2022 | — | — | 57 | #2,454 |
| 2021 | — | — | 45 | #2,794 |
| 2020 | — | — | 52 | #2,486 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,664 | 70 | #2,071 |
| 2018 | — | — | 32 | #3,480 |
| 2017 | — | — | 26 | #4,043 |
| 2016 | — | — | 19 | #5,046 |
| 2015 | — | — | 15 | #5,876 |
| 2014 | — | — | 10 | #7,854 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,230 |
| 2012 | — | — | 11 | #7,302 |
| 2011 | — | — | 8 | #9,193 |
| 2010 | — | — | 7 | #10,225 |
| 2009 | — | — | 7 | #10,445 |
| 2008 | — | — | 8 | #9,437 |
| 2007 | — | — | 8 | #9,338 |
| 2006 | — | — | 9 | #8,394 |
| 2005 | — | — | 10 | #7,405 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,456 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #6,063 |
| 2002 | — | — | 22 | #3,860 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #9,926 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #7,829 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #8,303 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,789 |
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).