Cason
Masculine
Cason is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 11,308 boys against 80 girls since 1880.
Cason is a name with two plausible parents and no birth certificate: an English surname of long standing on one side, the American rhyming family of Mason and Jason on the other. It found its firmest home in the South, alongside its respelled brothers Kason and Kasen.
How old is the name Cason?
Cason first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Cason is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 11,000 people named Cason are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cason most popular?
Cason peaked in 2014, reaching #424 nationally. Today it ranks #846, 422 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Cason
Cason exists as an English surname centuries old, part of the same stock that gave America its Carsons in the phone book, and it fits syllable for syllable into the run of -son names that American parents built out from Mason and Jason. Its life as a first name is genuinely American: the surname shelf and the rhyme, meeting in one spelling. The records treat its k-spelled brothers, Kason and Kasen, as separate names, but families experience them as one sound with several outfits.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No settled account exists for Cason, and the honest reading is none at all. What is documented: Cason is a real English surname whose own origin is uncertain, and as a first name it also plainly rides the rhyming -son family of Mason, Grayson and Jason. Between the surname road and the sound road, the record does not choose.
Pronouncing Cason
KAY-sun
First syllable like case; the whole rhymes with Mason and Jason.
Nicknames for Cason
Limited
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
- 1973
- Most boys named
- 2014725 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #424reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- +2.5%291 in 2025, from 284
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.
Cason in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kason in English — spelling variant
- Casen in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, Florida.
Casons among us
people named Cason are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 5,870 born in 2025 was named Cason
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Cason
- #846
- Cason on the 2025 chart
- #390
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Cason went to 291 boys in 2025, but Kason is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 771, which makes it the 390th most-given boys’ name of the year — 456 places above the chart.
- Kason480
- Cason291
About 1 boy in 2,215 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 5,870 for Cason 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 Ruby test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Cason's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ruby climbed just as high around 1906, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ruby's path sketches the road Cason is walking now.
Cason 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 Cason is headed
Cason is easing off slowly — about 16% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
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.
Cason beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cason in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Strangers land on the right sound immediately — it rhymes with names everyone knows.
- Comes with the easy short Case.
- Familiar without being everywhere; he is unlikely to share it in his classroom.
- In a noisy room it is heard as Mason, Jason or Carson; he will repeat it often.
- Several spellings share the sound — Kason, Casen, Kasen — so 'with a C' becomes a reflex.
- There is no meaning to tell when people ask; the name's story is its sound.
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Frequently asked
- How many Casons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 11,000 people named Cason are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Cason?
- Cason is one of 2 recorded spellings. Kason is the more common one — 480 births in 2025 against 291 for Cason.
- How popular is the name Cason in 2025?
- Cason ranks #846 among US boy names in 2025, with 291 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cason?
- About 1 in every 5,870 US boys born in 2025 was named Cason — 291 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cason with classmates?
- Cason will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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