Kayson
Kayson was given to 1,305 boys in 2025, #264 among boys’ names; 15,487 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,400 Americans named Kayson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kayson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kayson mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kayson 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 Kayson?
#264 among boys’ names, 2025
Kayson rose from #434 in 2015 to #264 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.37 to 0.76 per 1,000.
1,314 babies in 2025, the peak
Kayson peaked in 2025, when 1,314 babies were given it (1,305 boys, #264 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 1,154 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,305 | #264 | 0.76 |
| 2024 | 1,154 | #291 | 0.67 |
| 2023 | 1,224 | #278 | 0.72 |
| 2022 | 1,238 | #278 | 0.71 |
| 2021 | 1,222 | #283 | 0.70 |
| 2020 | 1,162 | #294 | 0.67 |
| 2019 | 1,028 | #324 | 0.57 |
| 2018 | 971 | #344 | 0.53 |
| 2017 | 970 | #349 | 0.52 |
| 2016 | 858 | #380 | 0.45 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 704 | #434 | 0.37 |
| 2014 | 706 | #431 | 0.37 |
| 2013 | 503 | #530 | 0.27 |
| 2012 | 447 | #575 | 0.24 |
| 2011 | 358 | #659 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 271 | #802 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 249 | #858 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 182 | #1,044 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 165 | #1,111 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 102 | #1,496 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,146 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 67 | #1,843 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,700 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,723 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,184 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,770 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,527 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,548 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,209 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,099 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,956 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,688 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,398 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,911 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,816 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,909 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,275 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,871 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kayson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 15,487 Americans recorded as Kayson, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls and 1,305 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kayson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kayson, and how old are they?
15,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 15,487 Americans ever recorded as Kayson. The median Kayson alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 6,848 people named Kayson (221 women and girls, 6,627 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,350 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 68 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13,100 |
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 Kayson born?
The states with the most babies named Kayson are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 122 | #309 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 81 | #255 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 80 | #156 | 1.7× |
| California | 60 | #513 | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 57 | #172 | 1.5× |
| Louisiana | 54 | #90 | 2.3× |
| North Carolina | 51 | #246 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 51 | #242 | 0.6× |
| New York | 50 | #356 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 49 | #257 | 1.0× |
Where Kayson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kayson is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1982 it was given 2.3 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 Kayson 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, Kayson is the most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,314 of their 4,673 babies (28%), again the 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 Kayson
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 Kayson and names like it
- Compare Kayson and KasonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKayson peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kayson since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kayson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kayson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.