Kayson

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kayson: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kayson: Recorded every year since 2005, its highest recorded position is #272, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#272highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 2005–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#3849
2006	#2282
2007	#1361
2008	#1511
2009	#1302
2010	#1082
2011	#1303
2012	#1313
2013	#730
2014	#695
2015	#565
2016	#558
2017	#554
2018	#557
2019	#561
2020	#509
2021	#627
2022	#585
2023	#519
2024	#461

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 2005 to 2024.

In 2024: #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, #404 among boys in Scotland, #430 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #461 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 2005–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2005
First recorded at #3849 among boys in England and Wales in 2005 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2016–2024
Highest recorded position: #272 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2016–2024).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Kayson appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 20 years beginning in 2005, and has registered 908 births with the name.

Kayson across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kayson's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#3849 (2005)	#461 (2024)	#461 (2024)	20 of 20	908 (2005–2024)	87 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#715 (2014)	#407 (2022)	#676 (2025)	10 of 12	56 (2014–2025)	9 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#358 (2016)	#272 (2023)	#404 (2024)	5 of 9	21 (2016–2024)	6 (2023)

Kayson by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kayson in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	58	5 of 10	12
2010s	491	10 of 10	49
2020sbusiest	359	5 of 10	72

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 72 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births rose by 25, from 19 to 44.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kayson appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 2005 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #272 in Northern Ireland in 2023.

Kayson's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#461	87	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#519	75	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#585	64	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#627	59	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#509	74	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#561	67	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#557	67	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#554	70	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#558	67	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#565	66	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#695	47	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#730	44	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1313	19	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1303	19	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1082	25	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1302	18	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1511	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1361	16	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#404	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#272	6	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#318	5	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#358	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#430	8	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#516	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#407	9	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#498	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#496	6	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#466	7	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#610	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#715	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#404	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 2005 and 2025, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #272, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 87 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 19 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

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Orrin · #277, 25y
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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Aibhlinn · #273, 13y
Neala · #273, 19y
Nojus · #271, 22y
Hoorain · #275, 16y

Kayson was ranked #272 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kayson and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kayson without appearing here.

Kayson moved ahead of

Espen Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3849 and #3849 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1302 and #4527.
Johannes Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1313 and #1313 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #730 and #2660.
Hans Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1511 and #1511 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1302 and #3227.
Leif Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3849 and #1617 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #2282 and #4052.

Moved the opposite way to Kayson

Aaron Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kayson went from #3849 to #461 while Aaron went from #45 to #154.
Alan Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kayson went from #3849 to #461 while Alan went from #241 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kayson went from #3849 to #461 while Alex went from #53 to #171.
Alexander Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kayson went from #3849 to #461 while Alexander went from #22 to #36.

Moved the same way as Kayson

Albie Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kayson went from #3849 to #461 and Albie from #426 to #19.
Alfred Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kayson went from #3849 to #461 and Alfred from #166 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kayson went from #3849 to #461 and Archie from #38 to #10.
Arlo Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kayson went from #3849 to #461 and Arlo from #766 to #15.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 2005 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #272 in Northern Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kayson

Kayson at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kayson across 3 official records

Kayson by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Kayson across 3 official records

Kayson by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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