Kacen
- #1,564 for boys in 2025, 109 births
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 206 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,675since 2000
Kacen over time
Rank among boys' names. Kacen has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,564 | 109 |
| 2024 | #1,902 | 83 |
| 2023 | #2,147 | 67 |
| 2022 | #1,706 | 99 |
| 2021 | #1,583 | 109 |
| 2020 | #1,361 | 130 |
| 2019 | #1,012 | 206 |
| 2018 | #1,261 | 145 |
| 2017 | #1,554 | 105 |
| 2016 | #1,959 | 74 |
| 2015 | #1,657 | 95 |
| 2014 | #1,714 | 88 |
| 2013 | #2,044 | 66 |
| 2012 | #1,882 | 77 |
| 2011 | #2,547 | 48 |
| 2010 | #2,914 | 40 |
| 2009 | #3,476 | 31 |
| 2008 | #4,267 | 23 |
| 2007 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #7,640 | 9 |
| 2004 | #5,813 | 13 |
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| 2002 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #9,112 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kacen! It came in at #9,112, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2003, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Kacen is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#743 · 1 in 4,240
- Alabama#765 · 1 in 4,304
- Maryland#809 · 1 in 4,579
- Tennessee#927 · 1 in 6,128
- Georgia#990 · 1 in 6,278
Best ever in a state: #347 in West Virginia, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #743 | 5 | 1 in 4,240 |
| Alabama | #765 | 5 | 1 in 4,304 |
| Maryland | #809 | 5 | 1 in 4,579 |
| Tennessee | #927 | 6 | 1 in 6,128 |
| Georgia | #990 | 8 | 1 in 6,278 |
| Virginia | #1,089 | 5 | 1 in 7,451 |
| North Carolina | #1,277 | 5 | 1 in 10,294 |
| Texas | #1,555 | 11 | 1 in 15,914 |
| Florida | #1,831 | 5 | 1 in 19,107 |
| California | #2,471 | 5 | 1 in 35,095 |
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See more about Kacen
- 338 spots since 2024 (#1,902 → #1,564)
- 203 spots since 2020 (#1,361 → #1,564)
- 93 spots since 2015 (#1,657 → #1,564)
- Debuted 2000
- Peaked 2019 at #1,012 (206 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,710 boys born in 2019 were named Kacen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,670 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 56.4% of all boys named Kacen (944) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 2000s | 134 | #3,476 (2009) | #6,190 |
| 2010s | 944 | #1,012 (2019) | #1,854 |
| 2020s | 597 | #1,361 (2020) | #1,711 |
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.
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