Case
#733 for boys in 2025, 359 births
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 623 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,926since 1959
Case over time
Rank among boys' names. Case has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #733 | 359 |
| 2024 | #722 | 364 |
| 2023 | #715 | 372 |
| 2022 | #650 | 426 |
| 2021 | #629 | 438 |
| 2020 | #576 | 482 |
| 2019 | #544 | 517 |
| 2018 | #508 | 560 |
| 2017 | #601 | 442 |
| 2016 | #554 | 518 |
| 2015 | #542 | 527 |
| 2014 | #468 | 623 |
| 2013 | #507 | 531 |
| 2012 | #505 | 527 |
| 2011 | #671 | 352 |
| 2010 | #708 | 329 |
| 2009 | #854 | 250 |
| 2008 | #966 | 207 |
| 2007 | #940 | 211 |
| 2006 | #948 | 196 |
| 2005 | #1,116 | 147 |
| 2004 | #1,132 | 139 |
| 2003 | #1,233 | 117 |
| 2002 | #1,090 | 136 |
| 2001 | #1,357 | 94 |
| 2000 | #1,429 | 86 |
| 1999 | #1,311 | 92 |
| 1998 | #1,475 | 75 |
| 1997 | #1,438 | 75 |
| 1996 | #1,552 | 64 |
| 1995 | #1,841 | 47 |
| 1994 | #2,041 | 40 |
| 1993 | #2,123 | 37 |
| 1992 | #2,128 | 36 |
| 1991 | #2,469 | 28 |
| 1990 | #1,968 | 38 |
| 1989 | #1,953 | 37 |
| 1988 | #1,879 | 35 |
| 1987 | #1,793 | 36 |
| 1986 | #1,725 | 36 |
| 1985 | #1,866 | 31 |
| 1984 | #1,842 | 30 |
| 1983 | #2,272 | 22 |
| 1982 | #2,341 | 21 |
| 1981 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1979 | #3,357 | 12 |
| 1978 | #3,070 | 13 |
| 1977 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #2,508 | 17 |
| 1975 | #3,246 | 11 |
| 1974 | #2,674 | 14 |
| 1973 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #3,152 | 10 |
| 1971 | #2,464 | 15 |
| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #3,595 | 7 |
| 1968 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
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| 1965 | #3,930 | 5 |
| 1964 | #3,601 | 6 |
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| 1962 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #3,652 | 6 |
| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Case! It came in at #3,988, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1963, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Case is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kansas#448 · 1 in 2,738
- Indiana#456 · 1 in 3,188
- Utah#536 · 1 in 3,731
- Ohio#666 · 1 in 6,553
- Washington#709 · 1 in 5,787
Best ever in a state: #138 in Wyoming, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kansas | #448 | 6 | 1 in 2,738 |
| Indiana | #456 | 12 | 1 in 3,188 |
| Utah | #536 | 6 | 1 in 3,731 |
| Ohio | #666 | 10 | 1 in 6,553 |
| Washington | #709 | 6 | 1 in 5,787 |
| Arizona | #736 | 6 | 1 in 7,076 |
| Tennessee | #771 | 5 | 1 in 7,368 |
| North Carolina | #782 | 7 | 1 in 7,473 |
| Texas | #789 | 22 | 1 in 8,232 |
| California | #1,164 | 15 | 1 in 16,944 |
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See more about Case
- 11 spots since 2024 (#722 → #733)
- 157 spots since 2020 (#576 → #733)
- 191 spots since 2015 (#542 → #733)
- Biggest jump: 168 spots in 2006 (#1,116 → #948)
- Biggest drop: 74 spots in 2015 (#468 → #542)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2014 at #468 (623 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2006–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,083 boys born in 2014 were named Case (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,758 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 49.6% of all boys named Case (4,926) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,988 (1959) | #3,988 |
| 1960s | 46 | #3,365 (1968) | #3,773 |
| 1970s | 114 | #2,464 (1971) | #3,256 |
| 1980s | 279 | #1,725 (1986) | #2,140 |
| 1990s | 532 | #1,311 (1999) | #1,835 |
| 2000s | 1,583 | #854 (2009) | #1,107 |
| 2010s | 4,926 | #468 (2014) | #561 |
| 2020s | 2,441 | #576 (2020) | #671 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Case in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 13,587 of them was named Case, which outranked 91.7% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,112Donavin148
- #1,112Ever148
- #1,112Fred148
- #1,116Case147
- #1,116Amar147
- #1,116Duane147
- #1,116Dyllan147
- #1,123Beckett146
- #1,123Keller146
- #1,123Mordechai146
Tied with 6 names at #1,116; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.