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Kaseem vs Kasen

American parents have registered 11,538 Kasens since 1880, against 899 Kaseems. Kasen is still ahead, with 628 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kaseem against Kasen, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kaseem Kasen

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 56 years in which either name was published, Kasen for 29 years and Kaseem for 27 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Kaseem Kasen
Total US births 89911,538
Most in one year 29742
Babies in 2025 13628
Estimated living today 87011,000
Median age today 259
Peak year 20002019
Best rank 2,993rd boys419th boys
Rank in 2025 6,446th483rd
First recorded 19571992
Girls / boys 0 / 899124 / 11,414

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 Kaseems alive today are over 25; half the Kasens are over 9. That is 16 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 Kaseem Kasen
England and Wales 3196

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: Kaseem and Kasen.