Cason

Where Cason comes from

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”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Cason
  • From a surname
Along the way
  1. 1973
    First appearance
    #4,054 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1992
    Cason Crane born
    mountain climber
  3. 2003
    Cason Wallace born
    American basketball player
  4. 2014
    Peak, #424
    725 babies named Cason — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2022
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #782.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
Namesakes
  • Cason Wallace · American basketball player, born 2003
  • Cason Crane · mountain climber, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.