Kase
Kase was given to 192 boys in 2025, #1,115 among boys’ names; 4,849 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,800 Americans named Kase and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 6 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kase by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kase mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kase is “a male given name.”
Modern spelling variant of Case. The surname derives from German Käse.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kase?
#1,115 among boys’ names, 2025
Kase fell from #824 in 2015 to #1,115 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.14 to 0.11 per 1,000.
433 babies in 2018, the peak
Kase peaked in 2018, when 433 boys were given it, #618 among boys’ names. The 192 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 192 | #1,115 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 233 | #973 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 211 | #1,038 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 278 | #865 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 289 | #826 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 273 | #837 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 370 | #688 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 433 | #618 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 346 | #708 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 317 | #765 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 275 | #824 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 291 | #792 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 258 | #832 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 209 | #962 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 119 | #1,401 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 84 | #1,770 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 96 | #1,645 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,100 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,103 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 44 | #2,682 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 44 | #2,542 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 41 | #2,617 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,815 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,846 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,562 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,948 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 30 | #2,826 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,051 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,963 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,255 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,326 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,822 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,567 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,061 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,757 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,595 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,664 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,847 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,534 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,322 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,834 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,868 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kase a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kase has been given almost only to boys: 7 girls in 42 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kase: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kase, and how old are they?
4,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,849 Americans ever recorded as Kase. The median Kase alive today is 9 years old; half are between 6 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 3,172 people named Kase (72 women and girls, 3,100 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,412 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 108 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 950 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,750 |
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 Kase born?
The states with the most babies named Kase are Texas, Georgia and Ohio, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 37 | #739 | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 15 | #663 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 9 | #900 | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 9 | #511 | 1.8× |
| Arkansas | 8 | #419 | 2.2× |
| Indiana | 8 | #741 | 1.0× |
| California | 7 | #2,099 | 0.2× |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #664 | 3.1× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,211 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #987 | 0.8× |
Where Kase is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kase is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1983 it was given 3.1 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 Kase 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 211,140 babies since 1880, Kase is the third most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 192 of their 2,311 babies (8.3%), 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 Kase
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 Kase and names like it
- Compare Kase and CaseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKase peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kase since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Kase.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kase alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.