Cayson
Cayson was given to 296 boys in 2025, #835 among boys’ names; 6,415 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,360 Americans named Cayson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cayson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cayson mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cayson is “a male given name.”
Modern variant of Cason.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cayson?
#835 among boys’ names, 2025
Cayson fell from #624 in 2015 to #835 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.22 to 0.17 per 1,000.
526 babies in 2016, the peak
Cayson peaked in 2016, when 526 boys were given it, #550 among boys’ names. The 296 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 296 | #835 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 332 | #764 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 316 | #794 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 396 | #683 | 0.23 |
| 2021 | 437 | #632 | 0.25 |
| 2020 | 354 | #709 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 401 | #659 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 427 | #624 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 473 | #576 | 0.26 |
| 2016 | 526 | #550 | 0.28 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 430 | #624 | 0.22 |
| 2014 | 360 | #694 | 0.19 |
| 2013 | 263 | #822 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 251 | #847 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 195 | #995 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 174 | #1,102 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 175 | #1,065 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 165 | #1,112 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 98 | #1,595 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 69 | #1,949 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,756 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,086 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 32 | #2,997 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,569 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,626 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,781 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,353 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,520 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,283 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,053 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,095 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,919 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,920 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cayson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cayson has been given almost only to boys: 48 girls in 33 years of records.
Girls and boys named Cayson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cayson, and how old are they?
6,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,415 Americans ever recorded as Cayson. The median Cayson alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 3,756 people named Cayson (72 women and girls, 3,684 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,339 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 28 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,990 |
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 Cayson born?
The states with the most babies named Cayson are Texas, Florida and Alabama, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 28 | #897 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 18 | #814 | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 15 | #363 | 2.1× |
| Tennessee | 14 | #525 | 1.9× |
| Kentucky | 14 | #353 | 2.0× |
| Georgia | 13 | #719 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 13 | #686 | 1.1× |
| Mississippi | 13 | #243 | 3.5× |
| Missouri | 12 | #490 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #712 | 0.6× |
Where Cayson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cayson is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1993 it was given 3.5 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 Cayson 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 71,617 babies since 1880, Cayson is the seventh most given (9.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 296 of their 4,170 babies (7.1%), 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 Cayson
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 Cayson and names like it
- Compare Cayson and KaysonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCayson peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cayson since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Cayson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cayson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.