Cason was originally an English surname meaning “calf enclosure” or “calf town”. It derived from the place name Cawston, which was influenced by the Old Norse name Kálfr meaning “calf” and the English word “tun” for “town, enclosure, yard”.
Cason is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Cason isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Cason ranks 504. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Cason. In the entire USA, approximately 8,972 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Cason. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Cason was originally an English surname meaning “calf enclosure” or “calf town”. It derived from the place name Cawston, which was influenced by the Old Norse name Kálfr meaning “calf” and the English word “tun” for “town, enclosure, yard”.
Cason is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Cason cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #406 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2014. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Cason, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Cason seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Cason was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
320 babies were named Cason in 2022 - that's 1 in 504,456 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Cason ranked 732 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Cason is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.
If your name is Cason and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cason, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Sun
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cason
Cason
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
S
O
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
A
S
O
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cason sounds like this:
