Casen
Masculine
Casen is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 6,633 boys against 22 girls since 1880.
Casen belongs to a family of names built on a sound American parents already knew well — the unstressed -sen ending shared by Mason, Jason and Grayson — and it arrived in the records only in the late twentieth century. It says itself on first reading: two beats, the weight all on the first. Its wave is recent enough that nearly everyone carrying it is still young.
How old is the name Casen?
Casen first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Casen is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 6,600 people named Casen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Casen most popular?
Casen peaked in 2014, reaching #611 nationally. Today it ranks #840, 229 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Casen
Casen is an American name in the fullest sense: it appears in the national record only in the last decades of the twentieth century, and it grew alongside a whole cluster of similar spellings rather than descending from a single older form. The sound has an older life as the English surname Cason, of the kind that crossed the Atlantic and settled widely in the American South. What made this particular spelling take hold was the company it kept — Mason, Jason, Jayce, Grayson — a rhythm that felt established long before Casen itself did. Its strength today is still concentrated in Texas, Ohio and Tennessee, which is a fair picture of how surname-style names have traveled in the United States.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No settled meaning has been established for this spelling. What is documented is the shape: Cason is an English surname, and Casen is one of several modern American spellings of that sound, alongside Cason, Kasen, Kason and Cayson. The -son ending common in English surnames marks descent — 'son of' — but the first element behind Casen has never been pinned down, so any translation offered for it is guesswork.
Pronouncing Casen
KAY-sen
Stress on the first syllable, the second one light. It rhymes with Mason and Jason, so English speakers land on it without being told.
Nicknames for Casen
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1978
- Most boys named
- 2014437 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #611reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- −7.6%293 in 2025, from 317
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Casen in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cason in English (United States) — spelling variant
- Kasen in English (United States) — spelling variant
- Kason in English (United States) — spelling variant
- Cayson in English (United States) — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Ohio, Tennessee.
Casens among us
people named Casen are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 5,830 born in 2025 was named Casen
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Casen
- #840
- Casen on the 2025 chart
- #316
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Casen went to 293 boys in 2025, but Kasen, Kacen and Kazen are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 1,037, which makes it the 316th most-given boys’ name of the year — 524 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 1,647 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 5,830 for Casen itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Antony test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Casen's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Antony climbed just as high around 1970, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Antony's path sketches the road Casen is walking now.
Casen sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Casen is headed
Casen should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Casen beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Casen in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Reads correctly at first sight for English speakers — the pronunciation follows Mason and Jason with no explanation needed.
- Two syllables with the stress up front, which pairs easily with most surnames and carries across a playground.
- Has a ready short form in Case, which also stands on its own as a name.
- A familiar sound in an uncommon spelling: recognizable to adults, unlikely to be duplicated in a classroom.
- The competing spellings are the real cost. Cason, Kasen, Kason and Cayson all sound identical, so he will spell it aloud often, and forms and coffee cups will get it wrong more than occasionally.
- No meaning has ever been settled for it. If the story behind a name matters to you, this one offers a sound and a recent history rather than a translation.
- It sits inside a crowded sound family. Even as the only Casen in a room, he may share his rhythm with a Mason, a Grayson or a Jayce.
- The name has no older generations behind it — nearly all its bearers are still children — so there is little sense yet of how it wears on an adult. That is unfamiliarity, not a flaw.
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Frequently asked
- How many Casens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,600 people named Casen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Casen?
- Casen is one of 4 recorded spellings. Kasen is the more common one — 622 births in 2025 against 293 for Casen.
- How popular is the name Casen in 2025?
- Casen ranks #840 among US boy names in 2025, with 293 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Casen?
- About 1 in every 5,830 US boys born in 2025 was named Casen — 293 in all.
- Will my child share the name Casen with classmates?
- Casen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Casen
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