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Caysen vs Cayson

American parents have registered 6,415 Caysons since 1880, against 2,448 Caysens. Cayson is still ahead, with 296 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Caysen against Cayson, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Caysen Cayson

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Cayson has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1993 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Caysen had 5 and Cayson had 6.

Side by side

  Caysen Cayson
Total US births 2,4486,415
Most in one year 178526
Babies in 2025 143296
Estimated living today 2,4006,400
Median age today 78
Peak year 20222016
Best rank 1,156th boys550th boys
Rank in 2025 1,339th835th
First recorded 19971993
Girls / boys 54 / 2,39448 / 6,367

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Caysen Cayson
England and Wales 13307

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Caysen and Cayson.