Kaysen
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · #415 for boys in 2025, 772 births
Given to boys 93.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 772 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,640since 1998
Kaysen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #7,491 | 14 | #415 | 772 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #597 | 480 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #568 | 515 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #538 | 553 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #581 | 482 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | #562 | 498 |
| 2019 | #5,163 | 25 | #576 | 483 |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 | #626 | 426 |
| 2017 | #4,922 | 27 | #656 | 391 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | #714 | 342 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 33 | #710 | 351 |
| 2014 | #3,925 | 38 | #768 | 305 |
| 2013 | #4,755 | 29 | #934 | 217 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | #960 | 210 |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 | #1,264 | 136 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 | #1,517 | 107 |
| 2009 | #6,317 | 21 | #1,459 | 114 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #2,125 | 64 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #2,504 | 50 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #3,451 | 30 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #3,447 | 28 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | #4,602 | 18 |
| 2003 | — | #4,114 | 20 | |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | — | #6,530 | 9 | |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kaysen! It came in at #8,479, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1998–1999, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Kaysen is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Hawaii#229 · 1 in 706
- Louisiana#306 · 1 in 1,325
- Idaho#314 · 1 in 1,129
- Iowa#335 · 1 in 1,351
- Mississippi#338 · 1 in 1,482
Best ever in a state: #94 in West Virginia, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #229 | 6 | 1 in 706 |
| Louisiana | #306 | 18 | 1 in 1,325 |
| Idaho | #314 | 7 | 1 in 1,129 |
| Iowa | #335 | 11 | 1 in 1,351 |
| Mississippi | #338 | 9 | 1 in 1,482 |
| Kentucky | #360 | 12 | 1 in 1,803 |
| Oklahoma | #376 | 12 | 1 in 1,612 |
| Tennessee | #432 | 16 | 1 in 2,267 |
| Washington | #454 | 16 | 1 in 2,222 |
| Alabama | #471 | 9 | 1 in 2,541 |
| South Carolina | #478 | 8 | 1 in 2,625 |
| Arkansas | #482 | 6 | 1 in 2,286 |
| Missouri | #492 | 11 | 1 in 2,782 |
| Kansas | #498 | 6 | 1 in 2,508 |
| Utah | #505 | 8 | 1 in 2,541 |
| Indiana | #511 | 12 | 1 in 2,871 |
| Oregon | #512 | 7 | 1 in 2,482 |
| Georgia | #552 | 16 | 1 in 3,356 |
| Texas | #607 | 42 | 1 in 4,194 |
| Colorado | #623 | 7 | 1 in 3,779 |
| Michigan | #663 | 11 | 1 in 4,220 |
| Pennsylvania | #668 | 12 | 1 in 4,851 |
| Maryland | #675 | 6 | 1 in 4,418 |
| Ohio | #698 | 12 | 1 in 4,863 |
| Massachusetts | #710 | 5 | 1 in 5,764 |
| Wisconsin | #758 | 5 | 1 in 5,198 |
| Florida | #859 | 14 | 1 in 6,905 |
| California | #913 | 25 | 1 in 8,628 |
| Virginia | #963 | 5 | 1 in 8,150 |
| Illinois | #968 | 8 | 1 in 7,741 |
| New Jersey | #980 | 5 | 1 in 8,171 |
| North Carolina | #1,140 | 5 | 1 in 10,265 |
| New York | #1,430 | 7 | 1 in 13,936 |
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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 Kaysen
- 182 spots since 2024 (#597 → #415)
- 147 spots since 2020 (#562 → #415)
- 295 spots since 2015 (#710 → #415)
- Biggest jump: 304 spots in 2012 (#1,264 → #960)
- Biggest drop: 30 spots in 2023 (#538 → #568)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2025 at #415 (772 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2012–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,213 boys born in 2025 were named Kaysen (0.05%)
- 49.7% of all boys named Kaysen (3,300) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 15 | #6,530 (1999) | #7,505 |
| 2000s | 357 | #1,459 (2009) | #4,026 |
| 2010s | 2,968 | #576 (2019) | #873 |
| 2020s | 3,300 | #415 (2025) | #544 |
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.
Kaysen in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 63,943 of them was named Kaysen, which outranked 73.3% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,811Zarya28
- #4,811Zaynah28
- #4,811Zury28
- #4,922Kaysen27
- #4,922Abigaelle27
- #4,922Aisling27
- #4,922Ajah27
- #5,045Aadhira26
- #5,045Aamiyah26
- #5,045Aberdeen26
Tied with 122 names at #4,922; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 4,734 of them was named Kaysen, which outranked 95.4% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.