Kason
Kason was given to 480 boys in 2025, #597 among boys’ names; 14,951 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,800 Americans named Kason and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kason by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kason mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kason 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 Kason?
#597 among boys’ names, 2025
Kason fell from #390 in 2015 to #597 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.43 to 0.28 per 1,000.
899 babies in 2019, the peak
Kason peaked in 2019, when 899 boys were given it, #362 among boys’ names. The 480 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 480 | #597 | 0.28 |
| 2024 | 518 | #566 | 0.30 |
| 2023 | 587 | #511 | 0.34 |
| 2022 | 645 | #481 | 0.37 |
| 2021 | 725 | #428 | 0.41 |
| 2020 | 851 | #366 | 0.49 |
| 2019 | 899 | #362 | 0.50 |
| 2018 | 794 | #401 | 0.44 |
| 2017 | 806 | #396 | 0.44 |
| 2016 | 879 | #374 | 0.46 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 817 | #390 | 0.43 |
| 2014 | 869 | #364 | 0.45 |
| 2013 | 861 | #365 | 0.46 |
| 2012 | 770 | #387 | 0.41 |
| 2011 | 680 | #416 | 0.36 |
| 2010 | 543 | #481 | 0.28 |
| 2009 | 564 | #483 | 0.28 |
| 2008 | 417 | #603 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 359 | #670 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 281 | #755 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 203 | #889 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 170 | #982 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 155 | #1,021 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 111 | #1,230 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 100 | #1,306 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 96 | #1,336 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 94 | #1,296 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 71 | #1,529 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 58 | #1,697 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 57 | #1,680 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 38 | #2,152 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 37 | #2,195 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 42 | #1,948 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 24 | #2,876 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,496 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,232 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 33 | #2,122 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,472 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 30 | #2,028 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,645 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,145 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,488 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,751 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,041 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,627 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,891 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,630 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,728 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,866 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,278 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,901 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,612 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kason a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kason has been given almost only to boys: 47 girls in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kason: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kason, and how old are they?
14,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 14,951 Americans ever recorded as Kason. The median Kason alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 9,945 people named Kason (105 women and girls, 9,840 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,253 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 X | 1965-1980 | 52 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 424 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,640 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,680 |
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 Kason born?
The states with the most babies named Kason are Texas, Georgia and Florida, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 58 | #551 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 48 | #262 | 2.1× |
| Florida | 37 | #494 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 24 | #454 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 22 | #401 | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 21 | #266 | 2.4× |
| Louisiana | 16 | #325 | 2.5× |
| Tennessee | 16 | #492 | 1.6× |
| Missouri | 16 | #406 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 15 | #638 | 0.8× |
Where Kason is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kason is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1974 it was given 2.5 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 Kason 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, Kason is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 480 of their 4,655 babies (10%), the fifth 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 Kason
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 Kason and names like it
- Compare Kason and KaysonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKason peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kason since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Kason.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kason alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.