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Kason

#597 in 2025Boys' name

House, through Cason

Kason has been given to 14,951 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #597 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 899 recorded.

Babies named Kason, 2025

1 in 6,910

Kason over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02505007501K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kason: meaning, origin, and history

House, through Cason

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kason means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Kason is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cason.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,904 boys were recorded with the name Kason between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 899 in 2019; its best national rank was #362 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #366 in 2020 to #597 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #390 in 2015 to #597 in 2025.

In the United States, 47 girls were recorded with the name Kason between 1999 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2016; its best national rank was #11,308 in 2016.

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 Kason?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,910
480 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,560
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#597
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,788 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kason 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 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,788 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kason. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kasons were born

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

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
14,904
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.1% of all recorded uses (7,918).

Is Kason 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
−31
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−231
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−207
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.4%
Peak was 2019 (899)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#362
2019

Spellings of Kason

Kason is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 31.4% against Kason's 0.45%.

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 Kason is used

Across 2016–2025, Kason was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 552 boys, against 1 in 2,201 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 25,000).

4181 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 552
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 667
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 735
  4. 4Alabama1 in 752
  5. 5West Virginia1 in 893
  6. 6Georgia1 in 917
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 962
  8. 8Kentucky1 in 1,010

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, Kason is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 87% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kason around the world

Where Kason 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
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2023
    #728
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2020
    #392
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    2017–2020
    #741
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #1,536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kason by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#597
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 231
Best rank ever
#362
2019
Peak year
2019
899 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,904
Count in 2025
480

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,308
2016
Peak year
2016
9 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
47
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kason

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

KaseyKasenKashCasonKysonKaseAnsonKaysonBensonJudsonSamsonKashtonEdisonLawsonKasynKarsonEdsonColsonTysonKasaiKaisonStetsonWatsonCayson

Names with a curve like Kason

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

KamdenFinneganArjunCaseDeaconRylandCannonZaidenBraylenNikolaiGunnerPaxton

Sibling names for Kason

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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