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Cayson

About 6,415 American babies have been named Cayson since 1993, most of them around 2016. In 2025 it ranked 835th. About 6,400 Caysons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Cayson boys named Cayson

By the numbers

Total US births
6,415
Estimated living today
6,400
Median age today
8
Peak year
2016
Best rank
550th
Rank in 2025
835th
First recorded
1993
Girls / boys
48 / 6,367

How old the living Caysons are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 6,415 babies given the name since 1993, about 6,400 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 6,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Modern variant of Cason.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Cayson is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Cayson is most concentrated in Mississippi (3.3×), Tennessee (2.5×), Alabama (2.2×), Georgia (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2016

The most popular boys’ names the year Cayson peaked:

All the names of 2016

Cayson elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Cayson 307 726th
Scotland boys Cayson 23 533rd
Ireland boys Cayson 11 503rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.