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 | |
| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 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 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#170 · 1 in 648
- Mississippi#172 · 1 in 631
- Louisiana#187 · 1 in 725
- Georgia#262 · 1 in 1,072
- Arkansas#306 · 1 in 1,182
Best ever in a state: #124 in Wyoming, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #170 | 34 | 1 in 648 |
| Mississippi | #172 | 19 | 1 in 631 |
| Louisiana | #187 | 30 | 1 in 725 |
| Georgia | #262 | 47 | 1 in 1,072 |
| Arkansas | #306 | 11 | 1 in 1,182 |
| Florida | #312 | 61 | 1 in 1,521 |
| Oklahoma | #335 | 14 | 1 in 1,282 |
| South Carolina | #337 | 14 | 1 in 1,447 |
| North Carolina | #352 | 31 | 1 in 1,646 |
| Missouri | #354 | 18 | 1 in 1,586 |
| Kentucky | #383 | 11 | 1 in 1,805 |
| Virginia | #383 | 21 | 1 in 1,862 |
| Indiana | #392 | 18 | 1 in 1,820 |
| Kansas | #450 | 7 | 1 in 1,972 |
| Wisconsin | #453 | 11 | 1 in 2,211 |
| Tennessee | #457 | 16 | 1 in 2,240 |
| Ohio | #458 | 22 | 1 in 2,464 |
| Texas | #497 | 63 | 1 in 2,716 |
| Minnesota | #503 | 10 | 1 in 2,514 |
| Iowa | #504 | 6 | 1 in 2,343 |
| Michigan | #532 | 15 | 1 in 2,864 |
| Washington | #546 | 12 | 1 in 2,783 |
| Maryland | #572 | 8 | 1 in 3,119 |
| New York | #592 | 25 | 1 in 3,565 |
| Pennsylvania | #612 | 14 | 1 in 3,961 |
| Illinois | #617 | 15 | 1 in 3,594 |
| Massachusetts | #650 | 6 | 1 in 4,753 |
| Arizona | #749 | 7 | 1 in 4,660 |
| California | #792 | 31 | 1 in 6,109 |
| Colorado | #805 | 5 | 1 in 5,165 |
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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 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 2,725 of them was named Kaison, which outranked 96.7% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.