Meaning not yet researched.
Kason: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 480 in 2025. Its best rank was #362 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #362 in 2019; #597 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kason in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#597 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #362.
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Kason: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 480 boys in 2025. Peak: #362 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 899 (2019).
In 2025, 480 US boys were named Kason, making it the 597th most common boys’ name of the year, down 31 places from #566 in 2024. That is 38 fewer than the 518 boys named Kason in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #362, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 899. For comparison, it was #390 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kason in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 5 babies. In all, 14,951 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,944 babies named Kason.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,184 US boys were named Kason; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 899. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,558 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kason ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #209 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), Kasen (11,538 babies since 1880), Cason (11,388 babies since 1880) and Kaison (7,198 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Casyn, Kacyn and Kasean are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Casyn (536), Kacyn (316), Kasean (185), Casin (128), Kazen (101), Kasaun (88), Kasaan (87), Kacin (67), Kasian (36), Kasahn (24), Kaseen (16), Kasien (11), and more.
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 Kason 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 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 15 | #209 | #178 |
| Georgia | 48 | #262 | #213 |
| Alabama | 21 | #266 | #153 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #318 | #230 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #325 | #154 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #351 | #219 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #360 | #305 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #390 | #229 |
| Michigan | 22 | #401 | #850 |
| Missouri | 16 | #406 | #414 |
| North Carolina | 24 | #454 | #311 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #487 | #190 |
| Tennessee | 16 | #492 | #268 |
| Florida | 37 | #494 | #595 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #527 | #214 |
| Virginia | 14 | #540 | #507 |
| Texas | 58 | #551 | #295 |
| Indiana | 11 | #602 | #442 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #620 | #440 |
| Ohio | 15 | #638 | #358 |
| Kansas | 5 | #649 | #547 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #737 | #725 |
| Illinois | 10 | #838 | #808 |
| Arizona | 6 | #891 | #507 |
| Washington | 6 | #949 | #483 |
| New York | 12 | #1,021 | #881 |
| California | 14 | #1,335 | #787 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 480 | #597 |
| 2024 | — | — | 518 | #566 |
| 2023 | — | — | 587 | #511 |
| 2022 | — | — | 645 | #481 |
| 2021 | — | — | 725 | #428 |
| 2020 | — | — | 851 | #366 |
| 2019 | — | — | 899 | #362 |
| 2018 | — | — | 794 | #401 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,005 | 806 | #396 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,313 | 879 | #374 |
| 2015 | — | — | 817 | #390 |
| 2014 | — | — | 869 | #364 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,562 | 861 | #365 |
| 2012 | — | — | 770 | #387 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,171 | 680 | #416 |
| 2010 | — | — | 543 | #481 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,721 | 564 | #483 |
| 2008 | — | — | 417 | #603 |
| 2007 | — | — | 359 | #670 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,114 | 281 | #755 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,811 | 203 | #889 |
| 2004 | — | — | 170 | #983 |
| 2003 | — | — | 155 | #1,022 |
| 2002 | — | — | 111 | #1,233 |
| 2001 | — | — | 100 | #1,310 |
| 2000 | — | — | 96 | #1,339 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,558 | 94 | #1,299 |
| 1998 | — | — | 71 | #1,532 |
| 1997 | — | — | 58 | #1,700 |
| 1996 | — | — | 57 | #1,683 |
| 1995 | — | — | 38 | #2,157 |
| 1994 | — | — | 37 | #2,200 |
| 1993 | — | — | 42 | #1,953 |
| 1992 | — | — | 24 | #2,882 |
| 1991 | — | — | 28 | #2,502 |
| 1990 | — | — | 32 | #2,237 |
| 1989 | — | — | 33 | #2,128 |
| 1988 | — | — | 24 | #2,477 |
| 1987 | — | — | 30 | #2,032 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,648 |
| 1985 | — | — | 15 | #3,148 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,489 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,753 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #3,042 |
| 1981 | — | — | 18 | #2,628 |
| 1980 | — | — | 16 | #2,892 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,632 |
| 1978 | — | — | 10 | #3,729 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,868 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,280 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,903 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,614 |
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).