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Casey vs Cassidee

American parents have registered 194,775 Caseys since 1880, against 783 Cassidees. Casey is still ahead, with 1,300 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Casey against Cassidee, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Casey Cassidee

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

Casey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1888 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2014, when Casey had 876 and Cassidee had 38.

Side by side

  Casey Cassidee
Total US births 194,775783
Most in one year 7,51038
Babies in 2025 1,3006
Estimated living today 184,000770
Median age today 3621
Peak year 19902014
Best rank 89th boys3,925th girls
Rank in 2025 320th13,208th
First recorded 18881981
Girls / boys 78,100 / 116,675783 / 0

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 Caseys alive today are over 36; half the Cassidees are over 21. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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