Cayson
Last seen for girls in 2019 at #15,539 · #835 for boys in 2025, 296 births
Given to boys 99.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 526 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,367since 1993
Cayson over time
Rank among boys' names. Cayson has never cracked the top 500 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 | — | #835 | 296 | |
| 2024 | — | #763 | 332 | |
| 2023 | — | #793 | 316 | |
| 2022 | — | #683 | 396 | |
| 2021 | — | #632 | 437 | |
| 2020 | — | #709 | 354 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #659 | 401 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #624 | 427 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #576 | 473 |
| 2016 | — | #550 | 526 | |
| 2015 | — | #623 | 430 | |
| 2014 | — | #694 | 360 | |
| 2013 | — | #822 | 263 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #846 | 251 |
| 2011 | — | #995 | 195 | |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #1,102 | 174 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #1,063 | 175 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #1,111 | 165 |
| 2007 | — | #1,593 | 98 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,943 | 69 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,752 | 39 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,074 | 32 | |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #2,993 | 32 |
| 2002 | — | #3,554 | 24 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,617 | 23 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,764 | 21 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,317 | 12 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,466 | 11 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cayson! It came in at #6,816, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1993–1997, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Cayson is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#221 · 1 in 908
- West Virginia#253 · 1 in 944
- Mississippi#267 · 1 in 1,082
- Alabama#268 · 1 in 1,131
- Kentucky#269 · 1 in 1,102
Best ever in a state: #156 in Mississippi, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #221 | 23 | 1 in 908 |
| West Virginia | #253 | 8 | 1 in 944 |
| Mississippi | #267 | 12 | 1 in 1,082 |
| Alabama | #268 | 20 | 1 in 1,131 |
| Kentucky | #269 | 19 | 1 in 1,102 |
| Arkansas | #334 | 10 | 1 in 1,353 |
| Iowa | #364 | 9 | 1 in 1,596 |
| Kansas | #381 | 9 | 1 in 1,615 |
| Idaho | #405 | 5 | 1 in 1,554 |
| Georgia | #426 | 23 | 1 in 2,269 |
| Tennessee | #428 | 16 | 1 in 2,219 |
| Louisiana | #444 | 11 | 1 in 2,077 |
| Missouri | #469 | 12 | 1 in 2,529 |
| Virginia | #473 | 15 | 1 in 2,716 |
| Wisconsin | #481 | 10 | 1 in 2,574 |
| Oklahoma | #492 | 8 | 1 in 2,352 |
| Ohio | #503 | 19 | 1 in 3,016 |
| North Carolina | #505 | 17 | 1 in 2,951 |
| Colorado | #580 | 8 | 1 in 3,225 |
| Texas | #610 | 43 | 1 in 4,067 |
| Pennsylvania | #619 | 13 | 1 in 4,405 |
| Florida | #624 | 23 | 1 in 4,167 |
| Arizona | #721 | 7 | 1 in 4,884 |
| Maryland | #776 | 5 | 1 in 5,277 |
| Minnesota | #796 | 5 | 1 in 5,334 |
| Indiana | #921 | 5 | 1 in 6,793 |
| Washington | #929 | 5 | 1 in 6,900 |
| New York | #1,044 | 11 | 1 in 8,704 |
| Illinois | #1,067 | 7 | 1 in 8,524 |
| Michigan | #1,094 | 5 | 1 in 9,179 |
| California | #1,242 | 15 | 1 in 13,768 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cayson
- 72 spots since 2024 (#763 → #835)
- 126 spots since 2020 (#709 → #835)
- 212 spots since 2015 (#623 → #835)
- Biggest jump: 149 spots in 2012 (#995 → #846)
- Biggest drop: 110 spots in 2023 (#683 → #793)
- Debuted 1993
- Peaked 2016 at #550 (526 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2011–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,608 boys born in 2016 were named Cayson (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,771 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 55.0% of all boys named Cayson (3,500) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 58 | #5,317 (1999) | #6,636 |
| 2000s | 678 | #1,063 (2009) | #2,546 |
| 2010s | 3,500 | #550 (2016) | #749 |
| 2020s | 2,131 | #632 (2021) | #736 |
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.
Cayson in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 340,215 of them was named Cayson, which outranked 13.6% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,470 names at #15,682; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 4,253 of them was named Cayson, which outranked 95.6% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).