Cason
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #846 for boys in 2025, 291 births
Given to boys 99.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 725 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,308since 1973
Cason over time
Rank among boys' names. Cason 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 | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #846 | 291 |
| 2024 | — | #854 | 284 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #790 | 319 |
| 2022 | — | #782 | 323 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #706 | 372 |
| 2020 | — | #667 | 395 | |
| 2019 | — | #592 | 467 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #547 | 510 |
| 2017 | — | #508 | 572 | |
| 2016 | — | #466 | 655 | |
| 2015 | — | #461 | 659 | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #424 | 725 |
| 2013 | — | #427 | 686 | |
| 2012 | — | #466 | 587 | |
| 2011 | — | #507 | 511 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #480 | 543 |
| 2009 | — | #539 | 489 | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #573 | 449 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #721 | 318 |
| 2006 | — | #749 | 282 | |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #814 | 232 |
| 2004 | — | #811 | 222 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #936 | 175 |
| 2002 | — | #939 | 171 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,008 | 149 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #1,314 | 98 |
| 1999 | — | #1,189 | 108 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,558 | 68 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,599 | 63 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,574 | 63 | |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #1,559 | 60 |
| 1994 | — | #2,392 | 32 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,295 | 33 | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #2,303 | 32 |
| 1991 | — | #2,344 | 30 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,695 | 24 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,766 | 43 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,305 | 26 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,641 | 20 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,226 | 25 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,866 | 31 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,098 | 25 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,140 | 24 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #2,426 | 20 |
| 1981 | — | #3,221 | 13 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,615 | 11 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,018 | 14 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,857 | 9 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,556 | 17 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,318 | 10 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cason! It came in at #4,054, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1976, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.
Where Cason is popular in 2000
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#476 · 1 in 3,491
- Alabama#496 · 1 in 3,614
- Georgia#585 · 1 in 4,617
- Tennessee#612 · 1 in 6,089
- Texas#661 · 1 in 6,857
Best ever in a state: #169 in Arkansas, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #476 | 6 | 1 in 3,491 |
| Alabama | #496 | 7 | 1 in 3,614 |
| Georgia | #585 | 12 | 1 in 4,617 |
| Tennessee | #612 | 6 | 1 in 6,089 |
| Texas | #661 | 25 | 1 in 6,857 |
| Louisiana | #738 | 5 | 1 in 5,449 |
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See more about Cason
- 8 spots since 2024 (#854 → #846)
- 179 spots since 2020 (#667 → #846)
- 385 spots since 2015 (#461 → #846)
- Biggest jump: 148 spots in 2008 (#721 → #573)
- Biggest drop: 76 spots in 2022 (#706 → #782)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2014 at #424 (725 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 2002–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,649 boys born in 2014 were named Cason (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,870 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 52.3% of all boys named Cason (5,915) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 73 | #2,556 (1977) | #3,537 |
| 1980s | 238 | #1,766 (1989) | #2,430 |
| 1990s | 513 | #1,189 (1999) | #1,951 |
| 2000s | 2,585 | #539 (2009) | #840 |
| 2010s | 5,915 | #424 (2014) | #488 |
| 2020s | 1,984 | #667 (2020) | #774 |
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.
Cason in 2000
Top girls' names in 2000
Top boys' names in 2000
More about 2000
girls
1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 363,207 of them was named Cason, which outranked 14.9% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,629 names at #15,031; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,964,001 boys got a published name in 2000; 1 in 20,041 of them was named Cason, which outranked 89.2% of the 12,119 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,300Tom99
- #1,300Treveon99
- #1,300Wendell99
- #1,314Cason98
- #1,314Braylon98
- #1,314Devion98
- #1,314Erin98
- #1,323Damarcus97
- #1,323Emory97
- #1,323Jai97
Tied with 8 names at #1,314; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.