Kaison
Kaison was given to 557 boys in 2025, #540 among boys’ names; 7,198 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,140 Americans named Kaison and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 4 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaison by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaison mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaison 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 Kaison?
#540 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaison rose from #734 in 2015 to #540 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.17 to 0.33 per 1,000.
655 babies in 2020, the peak
Kaison peaked in 2020, when 655 boys were given it, #454 among boys’ names. The 562 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 557 | #540 | 0.33 |
| 2024 | 595 | #514 | 0.35 |
| 2023 | 604 | #502 | 0.35 |
| 2022 | 583 | #510 | 0.33 |
| 2021 | 642 | #465 | 0.37 |
| 2020 | 655 | #454 | 0.38 |
| 2019 | 577 | #496 | 0.32 |
| 2018 | 485 | #569 | 0.27 |
| 2017 | 468 | #581 | 0.25 |
| 2016 | 391 | #663 | 0.21 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 333 | #734 | 0.17 |
| 2014 | 215 | #976 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 183 | #1,051 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 149 | #1,204 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 137 | #1,261 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 116 | #1,434 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 114 | #1,461 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 84 | #1,783 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,008 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 40 | #2,853 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 43 | #2,588 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,799 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,192 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,110 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 15 | #5,013 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,816 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,487 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,642 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,863 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,446 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,098 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,787 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,542 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaison a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaison has been given almost only to boys: 16 girls in 33 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kaison: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaison, and how old are they?
7,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,198 Americans ever recorded as Kaison. The median Kaison alive today is 6 years old; half are between 4 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 3,051 people named Kaison (47 women and girls, 3,004 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,694 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 20 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 868 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,250 |
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 Kaison born?
The states with the most babies named Kaison are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 60 | #542 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 49 | #399 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 44 | #282 | 1.8× |
| California | 40 | #689 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 30 | #370 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 26 | #421 | 1.5× |
| Alabama | 25 | #228 | 2.2× |
| South Carolina | 17 | #319 | 1.6× |
| Mississippi | 16 | #193 | 2.8× |
| New York | 16 | #867 | 0.5× |
Where Kaison is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaison is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1989 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 Kaison 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 76,689 babies since 1880, Kaison is the fifth most given (9.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 562 of their 4,673 babies (12%), 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 Kaison
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 Kaison and names like it
- Compare Kaison and KaysonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKaison peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaison since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Kaison.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaison alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.