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Kaison

#540 in 2025Boys' name

House, through Cason

Kaison has been given to 7,198 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #540 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 655 recorded.

Babies named Kaison, 2025

1 in 5,950

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaison: meaning, origin, and history

House, through Cason

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kaison means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Kaison is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cason.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,182 boys were recorded with the name Kaison between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 655 in 2020; its best national rank was #454 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #454 in 2020 to #540 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #734 in 2015 to #540 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Kaison between 2012 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2017; its best national rank was #14,969 in 2017.

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 Kaison?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,950
557 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,070
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#540
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaison 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 1002%
School of 5008%

Put another way: gather 4,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaison. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaisons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaison was born before 2020 — so the typical Kaison is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,182
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.6% of all recorded uses (3,636).

Is Kaison 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
−26
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−86
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+194
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.0%
Peak was 2020 (655)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#454
2020

Spellings of Kaison

Kaison is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 51.1% against Kaison's 0.35%.

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 Kaison is used

Across 2016–2025, Kaison was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 671 boys, against 1 in 2,876 across all states with data. It was least common in New Mexico (1 in 12,500).

8149 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 671
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 962
  3. 3Alabama1 in 980
  4. 4Hawaii1 in 1,111
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 1,299
  6. 6Georgia1 in 1,316
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 1,429
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 1,587

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, Kaison is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 84% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kaison around the world

Where Kaison 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
    #1,093
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2025
    #495
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2023–2024
    #404
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2019–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    2008–2008
    #5,755
    in 2008
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #1,144
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kaison by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#540
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 86
Best rank ever
#454
2020
Peak year
2020
655 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,182
Count in 2025
557

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,029
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#14,969
2017
Peak year
2017
6 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Kaison

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

KaiserKaizenKaidynKainoaKaisenKairoWatsonCaysonKaineGibsonColsonMaysonKaizerKainenMaisonGersonEdisonSamsonKaidanVinsonJudsonBensonKaidenKayson

Names with a curve like Kaison

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

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Sibling names for Kaison

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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