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Kason vs Kassian

American parents have registered 14,951 Kasons since 1880, against 266 Kassians. Kason is still ahead, with 480 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kason against Kassian, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kason Kassian

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kason has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Kason had 480 and Kassian had 42.

Side by side

  Kason Kassian
Total US births 14,951266
Most in one year 89949
Babies in 2025 48042
Estimated living today 15,000270
Median age today 102
Peak year 20192023
Best rank 362nd boys2,660th boys
Rank in 2025 597th2,941st
First recorded 19742017
Girls / boys 47 / 14,9040 / 266

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kasons alive today are over 10; half the Kassians are over 2. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kason Kassian
England and Wales 35936

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kason and Kassian.