Kaycen
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KAY-sen
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #973 for boys
Kaycen is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies) and 973rd for boys in the US (235 babies).
What does Kaycen mean?
Modern: spelling of Casen or Kason, a modern coinage
A modern coinage in the pattern of Jason and Mason.
Is Kaycen a girl's or a boy's name?
Kaycen is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK and 235 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kaycen in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,065th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Kaycen, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2019, with 6 boys.
In 2025, 174 boys in the UK were given Kaycen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #303, up from #5,065 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Kaycen in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,193 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,017 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,179 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,184 |
How popular is Kaycen in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 973rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 235 about 1 in 7,300 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 43% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 235 boys in the US were named Kaycen, making it the 973rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,280th. It first appears in the records in 2006.
2025 had the most boys named Kaycen of any year since it first appeared, in 2006.
Half of all the boys named Kaycen in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 5,068 boys in the US were given Kaycen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #70, up from #973 for this spelling alone.
Kaycen in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 235 | #973 |
| 2024 | 167 | #1,211 |
| 2023 | 167 | #1,197 |
| 2022 | 143 | #1,314 |
| 2021 | 176 | #1,143 |
| 2020 | 143 | #1,280 |
| 2019 | 148 | #1,265 |
| 2018 | 108 | #1,553 |
| 2017 | 81 | #1,829 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,012 |
| 2015 | 57 | #2,299 |
| 2014 | 47 | #2,580 |
| 2013 | 51 | #2,423 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,368 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,604 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,365 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,796 |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,864 |
| 2007 | 8 | #8,909 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
Nicknames for Kaycen
- Kay 3 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Kaycen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kayden, Finn, Ronan, Aiden, Kian, Keegan, Conan, Brayden, Lochlan, Brody, Cassian, Rayden
Other spellings of Kaycen
Kayson, Kaysan, Kason, Kasen, Kaysen, Cayson, Cason, Caison, Caysen, Kacen, Kaeson, Casen, Kasyn, Kaisyn
Names related to Kaycen
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kaycen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kaycen, updated 20 October 2026.