Meaning not yet researched.
Kaycen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 235 in 2025. Its best rank was #974 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Kaycen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#974 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Kaycen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 235 boys in 2025. Peak: #974 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 235 (2025).
In 2025, 235 US boys were named Kaycen, making it the 974th most common boys’ name of the year, up 241 places from #1,215 in 2024. That is 68 more than the 167 boys named Kaycen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #974, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 235. For comparison, it was #2,315 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaycen in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2006 with 5 babies. In all, 1,760 US babies have been given the name, 2.7% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,036 babies named Kaycen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,439 US boys were named Kaycen; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 235. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,268 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaycen ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #325 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), Kaysen (7,075 babies since 1880) and Kaizen (3,070 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaecyn 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: Kaecyn (52).
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 Kaycen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 10 | #325 | — |
| South Carolina | 13 | #399 | — |
| Alabama | 12 | #435 | — |
| Georgia | 22 | #492 | — |
| Louisiana | 9 | #512 | #895 |
| North Carolina | 15 | #631 | — |
| Virginia | 11 | #649 | — |
| Maryland | 7 | #662 | — |
| Michigan | 12 | #662 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #738 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #901 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #965 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #988 | — |
| Texas | 21 | #1,084 | #2,022 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,097 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,209 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,545 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,903 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 235 | #974 |
| 2024 | — | — | 167 | #1,215 |
| 2023 | — | — | 167 | #1,198 |
| 2022 | — | — | 143 | #1,318 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,455 | 176 | #1,146 |
| 2020 | — | — | 143 | #1,284 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,772 | 148 | #1,268 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,731 | 108 | #1,560 |
| 2017 | — | — | 81 | #1,836 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,609 | 71 | #2,022 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,447 | 57 | #2,315 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,861 | 47 | #2,601 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,897 | 51 | #2,444 |
| 2012 | — | — | 32 | #3,424 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,060 | 29 | #3,654 |
| 2010 | — | — | 22 | #4,443 |
| 2009 | — | — | 15 | #5,956 |
| 2008 | — | — | 7 | #10,489 |
| 2007 | — | — | 8 | #9,346 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #13,052 |
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).