Casen
- Pronunciation
- [Ca-sen]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Alternate Spelling: Cason.
- Origin
- English
About the Name Casen
Casen is a modern respelling of Cason, a contemporary American boys' name with no independent ancient etymology — part of the broad family of Mason, Jaxon, and Grayson-style names whose appeal lies in their crisp, surname-like ending rather than any deep linguistic past. The fashionable swap of -on for -en gives this version a slightly softer, more streamlined look. Pronounced Ca-sen, it reads as fresh, brisk, and thoroughly current, fitting comfortably alongside the most popular boys' names of its era without feeling interchangeable with them.
Casen first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2009 and has remained on the list through 2024, a solid and durable run for a name of its modern, invented kind. It reached its best national rank of #611 in 2014 and has accumulated 5,375 births across those years. Its recent ranks hold remarkably steady, charting #790 in 2022, #748 in 2023, and #792 in 2024 — a name that found its level and has comfortably maintained it rather than spiking and crashing.
The name's style is its substance: a clean, two-syllable name that sits squarely in modern naming taste, easy to pair with either traditional or trendy siblings. Its rhyming kinship to Mason and Jaxon gives it an instantly familiar feel while keeping it a half-step less common than those chart-toppers.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Casen
US Popularity History (2009–2025)
Annual US births named Casen by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2014 with 437 boys named Casen (boy rank #611 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #842 for boys (293 US births). That's 231 places below its 2014 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Casen Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Casen the strongest states are West Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Virginia | #296 | 52 |
| 2 | Kentucky | #350 | 122 |
| 3 | Mississippi | #364 | 70 |
| 4 | Arkansas | #366 | 82 |
| 5 | Nebraska | #395 | 25 |
| 6 | Alabama | #427 | 104 |
| 7 | Kansas | #452 | 39 |
| 8 | Oklahoma | #457 | 88 |
| 9 | Iowa | #462 | 36 |
| 10 | Tennessee | #464 | 149 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florida | #865 | 140 |
| 2 | Virginia | #860 | 44 |
| 3 | Illinois | #847 | 60 |
| 4 | Michigan | #752 | 56 |
| 5 | Georgia | #736 | 115 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | #711 | 107 |
| 7 | Colorado | #689 | 26 |
| 8 | Minnesota | #669 | 53 |
| 9 | Washington | #665 | 59 |
| 10 | Indiana | #626 | 91 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Casen in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Compare Casen to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Casen against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).