Case

What Case means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Case yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note 359 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Case?

US: Falling: down from #542 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2014, when 623 boys got the name (#468 that year). First in the US records in 1959.

How common

• About 1 in 4,758 baby boys in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in OK (0.85 per 1,000 boys), AR (0.72 per 1,000 boys), UT (0.61 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Case is #733 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Case were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kace221 US · 9 E&W
• Kase192 US
• Cass19 US · 29 E&W
• Cayce13 US
• Caz10 US
• Kaze9 US
• Kaise5 US
• Kyse5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Case

Boys

• Easton#110“east + settlement”^*
• Jace#114Diminutive of Jason, meaning “I heal”^*
• Jayce#167Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #167 vs #822 in 2025
• Karter#270Variant of Carter, meaning “son of Arthur”^*
• Josiah#54Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #54 vs #226 in 2025
• Grayson#51“steward”^*

For a sister

• Hadley#121“heath + woodland clearing”^*
• Harper#16From a surname for “a player of the harp”^*
• Arabella#213Editor’s note Steady in the US: #194 in 2015 and #213 in 2025
• Adelaide#289“noble + nature, character”^*
• Adalynn#184Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Harmony#276From the word “harmony”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Case’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.