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Casey vs Cassie

American parents have registered 194,775 Caseys since 1880, against 47,027 Cassies. Casey is still ahead, with 1,300 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Casey Cassie

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 146 years in which either name was published, Casey for 76 years and Cassie for 70 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Casey Cassie
Total US births 194,77547,027
Most in one year 7,5102,207
Babies in 2025 1,300175
Estimated living today 184,00040,000
Median age today 3637
Peak year 19901982
Best rank 89th boys137th girls
Rank in 2025 320th1,279th
First recorded 18881880
Girls / boys 78,100 / 116,67546,642 / 385

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Casey Cassie
England and Wales 11,8792,408
France 5805,185
Ireland 1,440594
Scotland 1,317556
Northern Ireland 630563
Belgium 162133
Poland 32

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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