Case
Case was given to 359 boys in 2025, #733 among boys’ names; 9,926 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,790 Americans named Case and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Case by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Case?
#733 among boys’ names, 2025
Case fell from #542 in 2015 to #733 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.27 to 0.21 per 1,000.
623 babies in 2014, the peak
Case peaked in 2014, when 623 boys were given it, #468 among boys’ names. The 359 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 359 | #733 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 364 | #723 | 0.21 |
| 2023 | 372 | #715 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 426 | #650 | 0.24 |
| 2021 | 438 | #629 | 0.25 |
| 2020 | 482 | #576 | 0.28 |
| 2019 | 517 | #544 | 0.29 |
| 2018 | 560 | #508 | 0.31 |
| 2017 | 442 | #601 | 0.24 |
| 2016 | 518 | #554 | 0.27 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 527 | #542 | 0.27 |
| 2014 | 623 | #468 | 0.32 |
| 2013 | 531 | #507 | 0.28 |
| 2012 | 527 | #505 | 0.28 |
| 2011 | 352 | #671 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 329 | #708 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 250 | #854 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 207 | #966 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 211 | #940 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 196 | #949 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 147 | #1,116 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 139 | #1,132 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 117 | #1,232 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 136 | #1,089 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 94 | #1,353 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,428 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 92 | #1,308 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 75 | #1,476 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,436 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 64 | #1,550 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 47 | #1,839 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,044 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 37 | #2,123 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 36 | #2,129 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,471 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 38 | #1,971 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 37 | #1,951 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 35 | #1,878 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 36 | #1,794 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 36 | #1,728 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 31 | #1,870 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 30 | #1,846 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,281 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,347 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,915 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,846 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,386 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,086 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,222 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,519 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,271 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,684 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,751 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,186 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 15 | #2,473 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,305 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,645 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,414 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,041 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #3,990 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,659 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,126 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,694 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,115 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,069 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Case a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Case has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Case: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Case, and how old are they?
9,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,926 Americans ever recorded as Case. The median Case alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 7,457 people named Case (132 women and girls, 7,325 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,514 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 21 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 138 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 527 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,990 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,110 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Case born?
The states with the most babies named Case are Texas, Ohio and Florida, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 57 | #556 | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 22 | #475 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 21 | #732 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 18 | #433 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 16 | #630 | 0.9× |
| Oklahoma | 15 | #313 | 2.8× |
| Missouri | 13 | #463 | 1.4× |
| Kentucky | 12 | #408 | 1.8× |
| Alabama | 12 | #427 | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 12 | #724 | 0.7× |
Where Case is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Case is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1959 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Case with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 209,920 babies since 1880, Case is the second most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 359 of their 1,861 babies (19%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Case
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Case and names like it
- Compare Case and CaseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCase peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Case since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Case.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Case alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.