Kase
Masculine · Latin roots · “From the surname Case”
Kase is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 4,842 boys against 7 girls since 1880.
Kase is one syllable and one breath, landing the way ace and chase land — a sound English speakers get right the first time they hear it, whatever they guess about the spelling. Behind the K stands the old English surname Case, a name once carried by makers and sellers of boxes and chests. The K itself is a recent American turn, part of the same wave that gave boys' names Kace, Kayce and Kaden.
How old is the name Kase?
Kase first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Kase is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 4,800 people named Kase are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kase most popular?
Kase peaked in 2018, reaching #618 nationally. Today it ranks #1115, 497 places below that high. See the whole 2018 chart.
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Where it comes from
From capsa (Latin) to Kase
The story of Kase
The surname Case is an old one in England, recorded for men who made or sold cases and chests, and it crossed to America with the earliest waves of English settlement. Surnames like it — Case, Cash, Chase — began moving into first-name use in the United States through the twentieth century, when family names started being handed out as given names. Kase belongs to the later, K-spelled chapter of that habit, which took hold across the middle and southern states and shows most strongly today in Texas, Oklahoma and Ohio. Its record on the charts is short and entirely modern; almost everyone carrying it is still young.
Meaningscholars disagree
From the surname Case — a maker of boxes or chests — or a short form of Casey
Two roads lead here. The surname Case comes through Anglo-Norman casse, a box or chest (ultimately Latin capsa), and named the craftsman who made them. The other road runs through Casey, the anglicized Irish surname Ó Cathasaigh, built on a word for watchful. Modern K-spellings sit at the meeting point of both, and no single origin has been pinned to this form.
How the name formed
- capsaLatin
- casseAnglo-Norman
- CaseEnglish surname
- Casegiven name
- Kase
Related forms: Case · Kace · Kayce · Casey
Pronouncing Kase
KAYSS
One syllable, rhyming with case and chase; the final e is silent. Speakers of Spanish, Japanese or Italian may read it as KAH-say on sight, so a quick correction is sometimes needed.
Nicknames for Kase
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
- 1983
- Most boys named
- 2018433 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #618reached in 2018
- Change vs 2024
- −17.6%192 in 2025, from 233
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.
Kase in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Case in English — spelling variant
- Kace in English — spelling variant
- Kayce in English — spelling variant
- Casey in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Ohio, Oklahoma.
Kases among us
people named Kase are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 8,896 born in 2025 was named Kase
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kase
- #1115
- Kase on the 2025 chart
- #381
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kase went to 192 boys in 2025, but Case, Kace and Khase and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 791, which makes it the 381st most-given boys’ name of the year — 734 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 2,159 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 8,896 for Kase 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 Joan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kase's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Joan climbed just as high around 1935, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Joan's path sketches the road Kase is walking now.
Kase 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 Kase is headed
Kase is easing off slowly — about 15% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium 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.
Kase beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kase in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable that English speakers pronounce correctly on first hearing, with no stress or vowel to negotiate.
- Sounds identical to a common English word, so the pronunciation is never in doubt even when the spelling is.
- Short enough for a small child to write early, and it fits comfortably beside longer surnames.
- Sits in a recognizable family of surname-names — Case, Casey, Chase — so it is unfamiliar without being strange.
- The spelling will need saying aloud for life. Case, Kace and Kayce all sound the same, and forms will come back with the wrong one often enough that spelling it out becomes routine.
- Case is an everyday English noun — a suitcase, a legal case, just in case — so the name turns up inside ordinary sentences and invites the obvious jokes. Most children meet this early and stop noticing.
- This is a recent name with a short record, and its use clusters in certain states. Depending on where you live, people may never have met one — or may know two.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kases are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,800 people named Kase are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kase?
- Kase is one of 5 recorded spellings. Case is the more common one — 359 births in 2025 against 192 for Kase.
- How popular is the name Kase in 2025?
- Kase ranks #1115 among US boy names in 2025, with 192 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kase?
- About 1 in every 8,896 US boys born in 2025 was named Kase — 192 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kase with classmates?
- Kase will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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