How rare is the name Case?

7,457 people in the United States have the first name Case, about 1 in 40,503. It ranks #3,004 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CASE

#3,004

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,457
About
1 in 40,503
This common or more
81.4%
Who bears it

Of the 7,457 people named Case, 88.5% reported their origin as White, 4.2% as two or more races and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino. 98.2% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Case peaked in 2014, when 623 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19592025
Peak year
2014
Births that year
623
In 2025*
359 ▼42%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 9,926 babies have been given the name since 1959. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Case by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,162. The largest share of babies named Case, 62%, were born in 2013 or later.

1950s#14,8235
1960s#9,32846
1970s#7,646114
1980s#5,081279
1990s#4,093532
2000s#2,4031,583
2010s#1,1624,926
2020s#1,3562,441
Baby boom 1946–640.3%
Generation X 1965–801.6%
Millennials 1981–965.6%
Generation Z 1997–1230.6%
2013 and later62%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Case is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Case has been most common in Oklahoma (3.3×), Texas (3×), and Arkansas (2.8×), and least common in New York (0.13×).

8,102 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Case

#3,002 Abner · 7,461#3,003 Essence · 7,458#3,005 Sydnee · 7,449#3,006 Tiffanie · 7,448

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Case, most common first.

#334 Casey · 165,300#1,633 Cash · 19,369#4,314 Casie · 4,390#7,349 Cass · 2,085#11,865 Casi · 1,065#12,734 Cage · 969#21,849 Cas · 461#24,393 Casy · 395

Also a last name

As a last name, Case ranks #896 of 156,621, with 38,337 people. See Case as a last name

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