Kaison
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #539 for boys in 2025, 557 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 655 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,182since 1989
Kaison over time
Rank among boys' names. Kaison 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 | #539 | 557 |
| 2024 | — | #512 | 595 | |
| 2023 | — | #501 | 604 | |
| 2022 | — | #510 | 583 | |
| 2021 | — | #465 | 642 | |
| 2020 | — | #454 | 655 | |
| 2019 | — | #496 | 577 | |
| 2018 | — | #569 | 485 | |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #581 | 468 |
| 2016 | — | #663 | 391 | |
| 2015 | — | #733 | 333 | |
| 2014 | — | #973 | 215 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,047 | 183 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #1,202 | 149 |
| 2011 | — | #1,257 | 137 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,425 | 116 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,459 | 114 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,775 | 84 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,995 | 70 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,832 | 40 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,567 | 43 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,735 | 24 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,114 | 20 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,044 | 20 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,890 | 15 | |
| 2000 | — | #7,416 | 8 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,317 | 12 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,466 | 11 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,642 | 10 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
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| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
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| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kaison! It came in at #7,905, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1995, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kaison is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#271 · 1 in 933
- Alabama#652 · 1 in 4,439
- Tennessee#767 · 1 in 5,965
- Texas#767 · 1 in 6,344
- North Carolina#875 · 1 in 7,222
Best ever in a state: #124 in Wyoming, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Hawaii | #271 | 5 | 1 in 933 |
| Alabama | #652 | 5 | 1 in 4,439 |
| Tennessee | #767 | 6 | 1 in 5,965 |
| Texas | #767 | 28 | 1 in 6,344 |
| North Carolina | #875 | 7 | 1 in 7,222 |
| Florida | #1,013 | 10 | 1 in 9,196 |
| California | #1,355 | 13 | 1 in 17,730 |
| New York | #1,800 | 5 | 1 in 20,861 |
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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 Kaison
- 27 spots since 2024 (#512 → #539)
- 85 spots since 2020 (#454 → #539)
- 194 spots since 2015 (#733 → #539)
- Biggest jump: 240 spots in 2015 (#973 → #733)
- Biggest drop: 45 spots in 2022 (#465 → #510)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2020 at #454 (655 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2014–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,635 boys born in 2020 were named Kaison (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,067 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 50.6% of all boys named Kaison (3,636) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #7,905 (1989) | #7,905 |
| 1990s | 49 | #5,317 (1999) | #6,825 |
| 2000s | 438 | #1,459 (2009) | #3,483 |
| 2010s | 3,054 | #496 (2019) | #895 |
| 2020s | 3,636 | #454 (2020) | #497 |
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.
Kaison in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 352,211 of them was named Kaison, which outranked 13.6% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,665 names at #16,869; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 12,731 of them was named Kaison, which outranked 91.6% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,195Lochlan150
- #1,195Zev150
- #1,195Zyon150
- #1,202Kaison149
- #1,202Braedyn149
- #1,202Campbell149
- #1,202Reilly149
- #1,207Achilles148
- #1,207Dillan148
- #1,207Kadin148
Tied with 4 names at #1,202; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.