Kayson
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #264 for boys in 2025, 1,305 births
Given to boys 98.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,305 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 15,201since 1982
Kayson over time
Rank among boys' names. Kayson has never cracked the top 200 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | #264 | 1,305 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #291 | 1,154 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 | #277 | 1,224 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #278 | 1,238 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #283 | 1,222 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #294 | 1,162 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | #324 | 1,028 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #344 | 971 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #347 | 970 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #380 | 858 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | #434 | 704 |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | #431 | 706 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 | #529 | 503 |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 | #574 | 447 |
| 2011 | #6,564 | 19 | #655 | 358 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #801 | 271 |
| 2009 | #7,679 | 16 | #856 | 249 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 | #1,041 | 182 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #1,102 | 165 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #1,492 | 102 |
| 2005 | — | #2,129 | 57 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,834 | 67 | |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #2,674 | 37 |
| 2002 | — | #3,670 | 23 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,143 | 28 | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #2,736 | 33 |
| 1999 | — | #3,480 | 22 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,486 | 21 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,160 | 23 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,022 | 16 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,791 | 12 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,372 | 8 | |
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| 1992 | — | #6,128 | 8 | |
| 1991 | — | #6,519 | 7 | |
| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
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| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kayson! It came in at #6,385, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1982–1990, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kayson
- 27 spots since 2024 (#291 → #264)
- 30 spots since 2020 (#294 → #264)
- 170 spots since 2015 (#434 → #264)
- Biggest jump: 185 spots in 2009 (#1,041 → #856)
- Biggest drop: 14 spots in 2024 (#277 → #291)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2025 at #264 (1,305 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2009–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,309 boys born in 2025 were named Kayson (0.08%)
- 48.1% of all boys named Kayson (7,305) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 15 | #6,385 (1982) | #6,792 |
| 1990s | 122 | #3,160 (1997) | #5,119 |
| 2000s | 943 | #856 (2009) | #2,068 |
| 2010s | 6,816 | #324 (2019) | #482 |
| 2020s | 7,305 | #264 (2025) | #281 |
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.
Kayson in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 137,315 of them was named Kayson, which outranked 55.8% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,008Zully14
- #8,008Zylee14
- #8,008Zyniah14
- #8,447Kayson13
- #8,447Abena13
- #8,447Abisai13
- #8,447Adabella13
- #8,931Aahna12
- #8,931Aaima12
- #8,931Aalijah12
Tied with 483 names at #8,447; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 2,723 of them was named Kayson, which outranked 96.9% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).