Cason

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 572 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
572
the US, 2017
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#846
up from #852
UK popularity
#2952
7 babies

How Cason has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#391#657#922201520202025#846

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#461
2016#466
2017#507
2018#547
2019#593
2020#664
2021#705
2022#785
2023#787
2024#852
2025#846

Cason by the numbers

In 2025, 7 babies in England and Wales were named Cason. In the US, 572 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 725 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Cason

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cason. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Carsonson of the marsh-dweller4,910 in the US (2017)
  • Calonheart4 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Cayson477 in the US (2017)
  • Casen341 in the US (2017)
  • Canon118 in the US (2017)
  • Caison56 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Cason

Names that are said the same way as Cason, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Kaisenocean battle; sea warfare136 in the US (2017)
  • Kayson978 in the US (2017)
  • Kason808 in the US (2017)
  • Kasen640 in the US (2017)
  • Kaison471 in the US (2017)
  • Kaysen415 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Cason

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