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Kace vs Kacen

American parents have registered 3,219 Kaces since 1880, against 1,675 Kacens. Kace is still ahead, with 221 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kace against Kacen, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kace Kacen

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

Of the 38 years in which either name was published, Kace for 36 years and Kacen for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kace Kacen
Total US births 3,2191,675
Most in one year 312206
Babies in 2025 221109
Estimated living today 3,2001,700
Median age today 67
Peak year 20192019
Best rank 759th boys1,012th boys
Rank in 2025 1,015th1,564th
First recorded 19862000
Girls / boys 31 / 3,1880 / 1,675

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 Kace Kacen
England and Wales 6228

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: Kace and Kacen.