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Case

#733 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Casey

Case has been given to 9,926 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #733 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 623 recorded.

Babies named Case, 2025

1 in 9,230

Case over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Case: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Casey

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Case means

Case is a short form of Casey.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Casey.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,926 boys were recorded with the name Case between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 623 in 2014; its best national rank was #468 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #576 in 2020 to #733 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #542 in 2015 to #733 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Case?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,230
359 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,760
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#733
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,402 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Case sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,402 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Case. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cases were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Case was born before 2015 — so the typical Case is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,926
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.6% of all recorded uses (4,926).

Is Case rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−10
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−157
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−191
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.68×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.6%
Peak was 2014 (623)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#468
2014

Spellings of Case

Case is not the most common spelling — Jose is, with 17.7% against Case's 0.30%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Case is used

Across 2016–2025, Case was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 847 boys, against 1 in 3,485 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

1118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 847
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 1,149
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 1,250
  4. 4Iowa1 in 1,515
  5. 5Alabama1 in 1,667
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 1,695
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 1,852
  8. 8South Dakota1 in 1,887

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Case is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 77% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Case around the world

Where Case ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2000–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Case

People whose public names include Case, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Case by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#733
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 157
Best rank ever
#468
2014
Peak year
2014
623 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,926
Count in 2025
359

Names similar to Case

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Case

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Case, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CannonArjunNikolaiKamdenDeaconKasonRayanLennonAaravArianZaidenFinnegan

Sibling names for Case

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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