Fun Facts About the Name Kaycen
- More than 1 thousand babies named Kaycen: U.S. records list 1,758 babies given the name Kaycen from 1880 through 2025. Even 48 girls received the name Kaycen - about 1 girl for every 36 boys.
What Does the Name Kaycen Mean?
Kaycen is a modern English-language given name whose meaning is uncertain. It is most often explained as a respelling of Cason or Kason, English surnames that have come into use as first names, with the -ay- making the long a explicit. The surname Cason is generally taken as a patronymic meaning "son of Case," but the origin of Case itself is not settled: it has been derived from a Middle English word for a box or case, an occupational name for a maker of such items (from Old French casse), and also from an Old English or Norman personal name. A separate possibility is that Kaycen belongs with the modern rhyming group built on -ayden, such as Kayden and Cayden, rather than with the surname names. Because both explanations are plausible and neither is documented for this particular spelling, no firm meaning can be attached to Kaycen.
Kaycen Name History & Origins
Kaycen is a modern spelling, and its story is bound up with the names and patterns it resembles rather than with a separate documented tradition of its own. The final -en and the long a written -ay- are both standard features of present-day English name creation, seen in Kayden, Jayden, Brayden, and Cayden, a set of rhyming names that became common in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Kaycen also echoes the older surname-based given names Cason and Kason. Cason is an English surname of the patronymic type, "son of Case," recorded alongside spellings such as Casson, and English surnames of this kind were frequently transferred to first names in the United States. Whether Kaycen grew out of that surname tradition, out of the -ayden group, or simply from the broad use of Kay- names such as Kayce and Kayla has not been established, so the name's development is usually described through these related forms.
How Popular is the Name Kaycen?
Kaycen recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2025. Its best rank was #974 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | #16,444 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2019 | #16,760 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2018 | #14,727 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2016 | #13,603 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2015 | #15,446 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #17,860 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2013 | #13,896 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2011 | #14,058 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #974 | 235 | 0.0138% |
| 2024 | #1,214 | 166 | 0.0097% |
| 2023 | #1,197 | 167 | 0.0098% |
| 2022 | #1,318 | 143 | 0.0082% |
| 2021 | #1,144 | 176 | 0.0101% |
| 2020 | #1,285 | 142 | 0.0082% |
| 2019 | #1,266 | 148 | 0.0083% |
| 2018 | #1,560 | 108 | 0.0059% |
| 2017 | #1,835 | 81 | 0.0044% |
| 2016 | #2,022 | 71 | 0.0037% |
| 2015 | #2,315 | 57 | 0.0030% |
| 2014 | #2,601 | 47 | 0.0024% |
| 2013 | #2,444 | 51 | 0.0027% |
| 2012 | #3,424 | 32 | 0.0017% |
| 2011 | #3,654 | 29 | 0.0015% |
| 2010 | #4,443 | 22 | 0.0011% |
| 2009 | #5,954 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2008 | #10,489 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 2007 | #9,346 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2006 | #13,049 | 5 | 0.0002% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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