Cason
Cason was given to 291 boys in 2025, #846 among boys’ names; 11,388 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,300 Americans named Cason and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cason by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cason mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cason is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.”
As an English surname, a corruption of the place name Cawston in Norfolk. Also borrowed from Italian Cason, from a Venetan form of casa (“house”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cason?
#846 among boys’ names, 2025
Cason fell from #461 in 2015 to #846 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.34 to 0.17 per 1,000.
731 babies in 2014, the peak
Cason peaked in 2014, when 731 babies were given it (725 boys, #424 among boys’ names). The 296 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 291 | #846 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 284 | #854 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 319 | #790 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 323 | #785 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 372 | #706 | 0.21 |
| 2020 | 395 | #667 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 467 | #592 | 0.26 |
| 2018 | 510 | #547 | 0.28 |
| 2017 | 572 | #508 | 0.31 |
| 2016 | 655 | #466 | 0.35 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 659 | #461 | 0.34 |
| 2014 | 725 | #424 | 0.38 |
| 2013 | 686 | #427 | 0.36 |
| 2012 | 587 | #466 | 0.31 |
| 2011 | 511 | #507 | 0.27 |
| 2010 | 543 | #480 | 0.28 |
| 2009 | 489 | #539 | 0.25 |
| 2008 | 449 | #574 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 318 | #721 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 282 | #750 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 232 | #814 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 222 | #810 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 175 | #936 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 171 | #939 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 149 | #1,007 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 98 | #1,312 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 108 | #1,187 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 68 | #1,558 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 63 | #1,600 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 63 | #1,574 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 60 | #1,556 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 32 | #2,394 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 33 | #2,294 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,311 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,344 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,702 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 43 | #1,765 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 26 | #2,307 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,645 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,229 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 31 | #1,871 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 25 | #2,106 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,147 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,438 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,241 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,648 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,028 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #3,901 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,571 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,058 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #3,996 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,352 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,120 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cason a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cason has been given almost only to boys: 80 girls in 53 years of records.
Girls and boys named Cason: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cason, and how old are they?
11,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,388 Americans ever recorded as Cason. The median Cason alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 8,783 people named Cason (151 women and girls, 8,632 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,390 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 77 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 496 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,440 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,240 |
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 Cason born?
The states with the most babies named Cason are Texas, Georgia and Florida, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 47 | #640 | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 23 | #465 | 2.9× |
| Florida | 19 | #779 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 17 | #457 | 2.2× |
| Kentucky | 15 | #335 | 1.5× |
| Alabama | 14 | #378 | 2.6× |
| North Carolina | 14 | #653 | 1.0× |
| California | 10 | #1,611 | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 10 | #813 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 10 | #680 | 0.7× |
Where Cason is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cason is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1973 it was given 2.9 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 Cason 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 80,707 babies since 1880, Cason is the fourth most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 296 of their 4,655 babies (6.4%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Cason
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 Cason and names like it
- Compare Cason and KaysonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCason peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cason since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Cason: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Cason.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cason alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.