Kacen
Kacen was given to 109 boys in 2025, #1,566 among boys’ names; 1,675 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,660 Americans named Kacen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kacen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kacen?
#1,566 among boys’ names, 2025
Kacen rose from #1,661 in 2015 to #1,566 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 49.6 to 63.8 per million.
206 babies in 2019, the peak
Kacen peaked in 2019, when 206 boys were given it, #1,012 among boys’ names. The 109 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 109 | #1,566 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 83 | #1,910 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,160 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 99 | #1,712 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 109 | #1,587 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 130 | #1,365 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 206 | #1,012 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 145 | #1,272 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,561 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 74 | #1,963 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #1,661 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 88 | #1,720 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,053 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 77 | #1,888 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,563 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 40 | #2,936 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,515 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,323 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,104 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,186 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,974 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,971 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,302 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,898 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,681 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kacen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kacen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kacen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kacen, and how old are they?
1,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,675 Americans ever recorded as Kacen. The median Kacen alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 968 people named Kacen (23 women and girls, 945 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,102 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 296 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,370 |
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 Kacen born?
The states with the most babies named Kacen are Texas, Georgia and Tennessee, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,607 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,040 | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #984 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,962 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,368 | 0.7× |
| California | 5 | #2,629 | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 5 | #816 | 1.2× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #803 | 1.0× |
| Maryland | 5 | #861 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,169 | 0.4× |
Where Kacen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kacen is most over-represented in Texas: since 2000 it was given 1.1 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 Kacen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kacen?
Kacen is a less common spelling of Kasen: SSA has recorded 1,675 Kacen and 11,538 Kasen since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,441 babies since 1880, Kacen is the sixth most given (6.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 109 of their 1,371 babies (8.0%), the fourth 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 Kacen
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 Kacen and names like it
- Compare Kacen and KasenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKacen peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kacen since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Kacen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kacen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.