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Kashvi vs Kason

American parents have registered 14,951 Kasons since 1880, against 585 Kashvis. Kason is still ahead, with 480 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kashvi against Kason, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kashvi Kason

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

Kason has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Kashvi had 50 and Kason had 587.

Side by side

  Kashvi Kason
Total US births 58514,951
Most in one year 50899
Babies in 2025 37480
Estimated living today 58015,000
Median age today 810
Peak year 20232019
Best rank 3,225th girls362nd boys
Rank in 2025 3,903rd597th
First recorded 20031974
Girls / boys 585 / 047 / 14,904

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 Kasons alive today are over 10; half the Kashvis are over 8. That is 2 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 Kashvi Kason
England and Wales 169359

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: Kashvi and Kason.