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Casaundra vs Cassidy

American parents have registered 64,583 Cassidys since 1880, against 772 Casaundras. Cassidy is still ahead, with 609 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Casaundra against Cassidy, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Casaundra Cassidy

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 65 years in which either name was published, Cassidy for 56 years and Casaundra for 9 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Casaundra Cassidy
Total US births 77264,583
Most in one year 553,449
Babies in 2025 under 5609
Estimated living today 74064,000
Median age today 3924
Peak year 19891999
Best rank 2,194th girls99th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked541st
First recorded 19601968
Girls / boys 772 / 060,848 / 3,735

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Casaundras alive today are over 39; half the Cassidys are over 24. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Casaundra and Cassidy.