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Kayson

#264 in 2025Boys' name

House, through Cason

Kayson has been given to 15,487 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #264 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 1,305 recorded.

Babies named Kayson, 2025

1 in 2,540

Kayson over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kayson: meaning, origin, and history

House, through Cason

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kayson means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Kayson is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cason.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15,201 boys were recorded with the name Kayson between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,305 in 2025; its best national rank was #264 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #294 in 2020 to #264 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #434 in 2015 to #264 in 2025.

In the United States, 286 girls were recorded with the name Kayson between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2012; its best national rank was #5,636 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,906 in 2020 to #10,496 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,690 in 2015 to #10,496 in 2025.

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 Kayson?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 2,540
1,305 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 1,310
0.08% of boys
Rank, 2025
#264
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
1,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kayson 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 301%
Grade of 1004%
School of 50018%

Put another way: gather 1,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kayson. In a class of 30 the chance is 1%.

When Kaysons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kayson was born before 2019 — so the typical Kayson is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
48.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15,201
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 48.1% of all recorded uses (7,305).

Is Kayson 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
+27
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+30
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+170
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.85×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (1,305)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#264
2025

Spellings of Kayson

Kayson is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 42.7% against Kayson's 0.62%.

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 Kayson is used

Across 2016–2025, Kayson was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 417 boys, against 1 in 1,399 across all states with data. It was least common in Maine (1 in 8,333).

12240 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 417
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 518
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 549
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 559
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 606
  6. 6Alabama1 in 621
  7. 7Georgia1 in 714
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 730

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, Kayson is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 61% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kayson around the world

Where Kayson 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
    2005–2025
    #522
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2025
    #560
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2016–2025
    #314
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2014–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    2007–2025
    #2,318
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #547
    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.

Kayson by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#264
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 30
Best rank ever
#264
2025
Peak year
2025
1,305 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
15,201
Count in 2025
1,305

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,496
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 590
Best rank ever
#5,636
2012
Peak year
2012
24 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
286
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Kayson

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

KaysenBensonJudsonSamsonEdisonLawsonKaydenKarsonColsonKaylebKaisonKasonStetsonWatsonJaysonCaysonAddisonKaycenKayceGibsonCasonJamisonBronsonKayvon

Names with a curve like Kayson

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

KashBodhiLennoxHendrixBowenRemyJensenDaxtonOdinAtticusBeckhamSullivan

Sibling names for Kayson

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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