Kasun
Origin
Sinhala
Syllables
2
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
a modern Sinhala coinage of the 1980s-90s birth cohort; no fixed dictionary meaning, and Sinhala parents do not expect one, since names are often coined fresh around an auspicious opening syllable set by the birth horoscope
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Kasun has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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