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Cayson

#835 in 2025Boys' name

House, through Cason

Cayson has been given to 6,415 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #835 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 526 recorded.

Babies named Cayson, 2025

1 in 11,200

Cayson over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cayson: meaning, origin, and history

House, through Cason

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cayson means

Cayson belongs to the name family reached through Cayson → Cason. Its meaning is “house”.

Origin, language, and formation

Cayson is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cason.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,367 boys were recorded with the name Cayson between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 526 in 2016; its best national rank was #550 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #709 in 2020 to #835 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #624 in 2015 to #835 in 2025.

In the United States, 48 girls were recorded with the name Cayson between 2003 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2003; its best national rank was #12,650 in 2003.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cayson?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,200
296 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,770
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#835
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,764 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cayson 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 7,764 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cayson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caysons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cayson was born before 2017 — so the typical Cayson is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
55.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,367
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 55.0% of all recorded uses (3,500).

Is Cayson 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
−71
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−126
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−211
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.3%
Peak was 2016 (526)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#550
2016

Spellings of Cayson

Cayson is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 41.2% against Cayson's 0.25%.

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 Cayson is used

Across 2016–2025, Cayson was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 862 boys, against 1 in 4,171 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 33,333).

3116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 862
  2. 2Alabama1 in 1,449
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 1,493
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 1,515
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 1,786
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 2,000
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 2,128
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 2,222

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, Cayson is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 88% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Cayson around the world

Where Cayson 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
    2008–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2023
    #533
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2015–2021
    #552
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Cayson by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#835
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 126
Best rank ever
#550
2016
Peak year
2016
526 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,367
Count in 2025
296

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,650
2003
Peak year
2003
7 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
48
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cayson

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

CaysenWatsonKaisonGibsonMaysonMaisonGersonColsonVinsonCaylebCaymanCaydenEdisonWessonSamsonJudsonJensonBensonCaydeJohnsonKaysonMadisonAnsonBranson

Names with a curve like Cayson

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

TitanJoziahKannonKaseKingsleyAxtonLachlanRaydenHenrikDashGreyNixon

Sibling names for Cayson

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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