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Kasen vs Kassia

American parents have registered 11,538 Kasens since 1880, against 876 Kassias. Kasen is still ahead, with 628 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kasen Kassia

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 55 years in which either name was published, Kasen for 31 years and Kassia for 24 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Kasen Kassia
Total US births 11,538876
Most in one year 74235
Babies in 2025 62835
Estimated living today 11,000860
Median age today 924
Peak year 20192025
Best rank 419th boys4,067th girls
Rank in 2025 483rd4,067th
First recorded 19921967
Girls / boys 124 / 11,414876 / 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 Kassias alive today are over 24; half the Kasens are over 9. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Kasen Kassia
England and Wales 96120

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: Kasen and Kassia.