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Kacee vs Kacen

American parents have registered 2,525 Kacees since 1880, against 1,675 Kacens. But in 2025 it was Kacen that was commoner, 109 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kacee against Kacen, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kacee 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 57 years in which either name was published, Kacee for 41 years and Kacen for 16 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kacee Kacen
Total US births 2,5251,675
Most in one year 104206
Babies in 2025 under 5109
Estimated living today 2,5001,700
Median age today 307
Peak year 19892019
Best rank 1,532nd girls1,012th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,564th
First recorded 19662000
Girls / boys 2,235 / 2900 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Kacees alive today are over 30; half the Kacens are over 7. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Kacee Kacen
England and Wales 7428

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: Kacee and Kacen.