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Cason

#846 in 2025Boys' name

House

Cason has been given to 11,388 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #846 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 725 recorded.

Babies named Cason, 2025

1 in 11,400

Cason over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cason: meaning, origin, and history

House

surname transfer

What Cason means

Cason means “house”, associated with casa.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

As an English surname, a corruption of the place name Cawston in Norfolk. Also borrowed from Italian Cason, from a Venetan form of casa (“house”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Cason (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Cason is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Cason comes through Italian Cason.

Cason is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,308 boys were recorded with the name Cason between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 725 in 2014; its best national rank was #424 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #667 in 2020 to #846 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #461 in 2015 to #846 in 2025.

In the United States, 80 girls were recorded with the name Cason between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1995; its best national rank was #8,892 in 1995.

How common is Cason?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,400
291 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,870
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#846
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,898 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cason 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 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,898 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cason. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Casons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cason was born before 2013 — so the typical Cason is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,308
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.3% of all recorded uses (5,915).

Is Cason 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
+8
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−179
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−385
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.1%
Peak was 2014 (725)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#424
2014

Spellings of Cason

Cason is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 30.9% against Cason's 0.33%.

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 Cason is used

Across 2016–2025, Cason was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 1,235 boys, against 1 in 3,869 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 50,000).

281 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 1,235
  2. 2Alabama1 in 1,282
  3. 3Georgia1 in 1,282
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 1,389
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 1,449
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 1,563
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 1,587
  8. 8West Virginia1 in 1,613

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, Cason is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 91% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Cason around the world

Where Cason 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
    2007–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2016
    #707
    in 2016
  • Northern Ireland
    2020–2020
    #392
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Cason

People whose public names include Cason, 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.

Cason by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#846
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 179
Best rank ever
#424
2014
Peak year
2014
725 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,308
Count in 2025
291

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,376
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,892
1995
Peak year
1995
9 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
80
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Cason

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

CasenCaseCasperKysonKasonAnsonCashCassiusEdisonEdsonSamsonColsonJudsonBensonCasimirKaysonCaseyKaisonLawsonCaspianWatsonCassCastielCayson

Names with a curve like Cason

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

RylandKorbinBrycenKamdenLandynBraylenArjunBostonKellanJaggerBransonUriah

Sibling names for Cason

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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