Kaycen
Kaycen was given to 235 boys in 2025, #974 among boys’ names; 1,760 Americans have been recorded with it since 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,750 Americans named Kaycen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 9.
Kaycen climbed 241 places in 2025, the #15 climb among the boys’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaycen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaycen?
#974 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaycen rose from #2,314 in 2015 to #974 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.03 to 0.14 per 1,000.
235 babies in 2025, the peak
Kaycen peaked in 2025, when 235 boys were given it, #974 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 167 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 235 | #974 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 167 | #1,215 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 167 | #1,198 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 143 | #1,318 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 176 | #1,146 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 143 | #1,284 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 148 | #1,268 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 108 | #1,560 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 81 | #1,836 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,022 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 57 | #2,314 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 47 | #2,599 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 51 | #2,443 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,421 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,653 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,442 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,952 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,482 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,340 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,045 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaycen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,760 Americans recorded as Kaycen, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 235 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kaycen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaycen, and how old are they?
1,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,760 Americans ever recorded as Kaycen. The median Kaycen alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 124 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,620 |
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.
Where are babies named Kaycen born?
The states with the most babies named Kaycen are Georgia, Texas and North Carolina, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 22 | #492 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 21 | #1,084 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 15 | #631 | 0.8× |
| South Carolina | 13 | #399 | 2.3× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,097 | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 12 | #435 | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 12 | #662 | 0.3× |
| California | 11 | #1,545 | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 11 | #649 | 0.5× |
| Mississippi | 10 | #325 | 3.1× |
Where Kaycen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaycen is most over-represented in Georgia: since 2006 it was given 1.7 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 Kaycen 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 Kaycen?
Kaycen is a less common spelling of Kaysen: SSA has recorded 1,760 Kaycen and 7,075 Kaysen since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,134 babies since 1880, Kaycen is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 235 of their 1,276 babies (18%), again the second most given.
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 Kaycen
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 Kaycen and names like it
- Compare Kaycen and KaysenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKaycen peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaycen since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kaycen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaycen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.