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 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#253 · 1 in 887
- West Virginia#293 · 1 in 1,116
- Kentucky#304 · 1 in 1,237
- Alabama#350 · 1 in 1,469
- Oklahoma#373 · 1 in 1,479
Best ever in a state: #156 in Mississippi, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #253 | 13 | 1 in 887 |
| West Virginia | #293 | 6 | 1 in 1,116 |
| Kentucky | #304 | 16 | 1 in 1,237 |
| Alabama | #350 | 15 | 1 in 1,469 |
| Oklahoma | #373 | 12 | 1 in 1,479 |
| Kansas | #385 | 9 | 1 in 1,518 |
| Nebraska | #433 | 5 | 1 in 1,732 |
| Louisiana | #453 | 11 | 1 in 1,938 |
| Arkansas | #486 | 6 | 1 in 2,101 |
| North Carolina | #497 | 20 | 1 in 2,548 |
| Tennessee | #510 | 14 | 1 in 2,565 |
| Ohio | #516 | 19 | 1 in 2,795 |
| Oregon | #532 | 6 | 1 in 2,547 |
| Georgia | #550 | 18 | 1 in 2,846 |
| South Carolina | #571 | 7 | 1 in 2,929 |
| Maryland | #591 | 8 | 1 in 3,106 |
| Indiana | #600 | 10 | 1 in 3,223 |
| Florida | #613 | 25 | 1 in 3,814 |
| Missouri | #642 | 8 | 1 in 3,497 |
| Wisconsin | #676 | 6 | 1 in 3,943 |
| Washington | #684 | 9 | 1 in 3,693 |
| Virginia | #715 | 9 | 1 in 4,265 |
| Colorado | #716 | 6 | 1 in 4,243 |
| Texas | #726 | 38 | 1 in 4,703 |
| Arizona | #824 | 6 | 1 in 5,439 |
| Minnesota | #828 | 5 | 1 in 4,986 |
| Pennsylvania | #905 | 8 | 1 in 6,692 |
| Michigan | #908 | 7 | 1 in 5,929 |
| California | #994 | 22 | 1 in 8,597 |
| Illinois | #1,049 | 7 | 1 in 7,394 |
| New York | #1,061 | 11 | 1 in 7,925 |
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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 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 4,409 of them was named Cayson, which outranked 95.2% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.