Cayson
Last seen for girls in 2019 at #15,539 · #835 for boys in 2025, 296 births
Given to boys 99.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 526 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,367since 1993
Cayson over time
Rank among boys' names. Cayson has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #835 | 296 | |
| 2024 | — | #763 | 332 | |
| 2023 | — | #793 | 316 | |
| 2022 | — | #683 | 396 | |
| 2021 | — | #632 | 437 | |
| 2020 | — | #709 | 354 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #659 | 401 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #624 | 427 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #576 | 473 |
| 2016 | — | #550 | 526 | |
| 2015 | — | #623 | 430 | |
| 2014 | — | #694 | 360 | |
| 2013 | — | #822 | 263 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #846 | 251 |
| 2011 | — | #995 | 195 | |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #1,102 | 174 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #1,063 | 175 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #1,111 | 165 |
| 2007 | — | #1,593 | 98 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,943 | 69 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,752 | 39 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,074 | 32 | |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #2,993 | 32 |
| 2002 | — | #3,554 | 24 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,617 | 23 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,764 | 21 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,317 | 12 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,466 | 11 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cayson! It came in at #6,816, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1993–1997, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Cayson is popular in 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#247 · 1 in 1,124
- West Virginia#318 · 1 in 1,676
- Louisiana#345 · 1 in 1,765
- Oklahoma#373 · 1 in 1,626
- Idaho#387 · 1 in 1,596
Best ever in a state: #156 in Mississippi, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #247 | 12 | 1 in 1,124 |
| West Virginia | #318 | 5 | 1 in 1,676 |
| Louisiana | #345 | 14 | 1 in 1,765 |
| Oklahoma | #373 | 13 | 1 in 1,626 |
| Idaho | #387 | 5 | 1 in 1,596 |
| Alabama | #416 | 10 | 1 in 2,237 |
| Arkansas | #422 | 7 | 1 in 2,036 |
| Tennessee | #433 | 14 | 1 in 2,541 |
| Kentucky | #441 | 8 | 1 in 2,776 |
| Texas | #600 | 43 | 1 in 4,192 |
| Colorado | #613 | 7 | 1 in 3,832 |
| Georgia | #677 | 12 | 1 in 4,474 |
| Utah | #681 | 5 | 1 in 4,320 |
| Florida | #761 | 16 | 1 in 5,838 |
| Missouri | #778 | 5 | 1 in 6,351 |
| Ohio | #867 | 8 | 1 in 7,459 |
| Indiana | #873 | 5 | 1 in 7,130 |
| North Carolina | #931 | 6 | 1 in 8,401 |
| Virginia | #946 | 5 | 1 in 8,344 |
| Illinois | #1,161 | 6 | 1 in 10,985 |
| California | #1,816 | 8 | 1 in 28,378 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cayson
- 72 spots since 2024 (#763 → #835)
- 126 spots since 2020 (#709 → #835)
- 212 spots since 2015 (#623 → #835)
- Biggest jump: 149 spots in 2012 (#995 → #846)
- Biggest drop: 110 spots in 2023 (#683 → #793)
- Debuted 1993
- Peaked 2016 at #550 (526 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2011–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,608 boys born in 2016 were named Cayson (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,771 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 55.0% of all boys named Cayson (3,500) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 58 | #5,317 (1999) | #6,636 |
| 2000s | 678 | #1,063 (2009) | #2,546 |
| 2010s | 3,500 | #550 (2016) | #749 |
| 2020s | 2,131 | #632 (2021) | #736 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cayson in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 7,192 of them was named Cayson, which outranked 94.2% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.