Kacen
#1,566 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kacen has been given to 1,675 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #1,566 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 206 recorded.
Babies named Kacen, 2025
1 in 30,400
Kacen over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kacen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 30,400
- 109 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 15,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,566
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 21,083 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kacen sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 21,083 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kacen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kacens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kacen was born before 2018 — so the typical Kacen is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 56.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,675
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 56.4% of all recorded uses (944).
Is Kacen 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
- +344
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −201
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +95
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.15×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 52.9%
- Peak was 2019 (206)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kacen
Kacen is not the most common spelling — Jace is, with 8.8% against Kacen's 0.16%.
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 Kacen is used
Across 2016–2025, Kacen was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 4,762 boys, against 1 in 20,104 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 4,762
- 2Louisiana1 in 5,263
- 3Alabama1 in 6,667
- 4Georgia1 in 7,143
- 5South Carolina1 in 8,333
- 6Tennessee1 in 12,500
- 7Maryland1 in 14,286
- 8North Carolina1 in 14,286
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.
Kacen around the world
Where Kacen 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 & Wales2018–2025#5,137in 2025
- Canada2013–2019#2,084in 2019
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kacen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kacen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kacen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.