Cason

11,281 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cason in the 2020 census, making it the 3,111th most common in the country. That is about one person in 26,500.

By the numbers

People: 11,281
Rank: 3,111th
How common: 1 in 26,500
Per 100,000: 3.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

As an English surname, a corruption of the place name Cawston in Norfolk. Also borrowed from Italian Cason, from a Venetan form of casa (“house”).

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cason described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 61.6%
Black, not Hispanic 29.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Cason

Andre Cason (born 1969)American sprinter

People named Cason with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cason

Also a first name

Cason has been given to 11,388 American babies as a first name since 1973, peaking in 2014. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.