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Kasen vs Kashonna

American parents have registered 11,538 Kasens since 1880, against 36 Kashonnas. Kasen is still ahead, with 628 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kasen Kashonna

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, Kasen for 34 years and Kashonna for 4 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kasen Kashonna
Total US births 11,53836
Most in one year 74215
Babies in 2025 628under 5
Estimated living today 11,00040
Median age today 940
Peak year 20191984
Best rank 419th boys4,737th girls
Rank in 2025 483rdunranked
First recorded 19921984
Girls / boys 124 / 11,41436 / 0

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 Kashonnas alive today are over 40; half the Kasens are over 9. That is 31 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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