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Cashmere vs Cassie

American parents have registered 47,027 Cassies since 1880, against 1,354 Cashmeres. Cassie is still ahead, with 175 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cashmere against Cassie, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cashmere 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

Cassie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Cashmere had 65 and Cassie had 182.

Side by side

  Cashmere Cassie
Total US births 1,35447,027
Most in one year 652,207
Babies in 2025 49175
Estimated living today 1,30040,000
Median age today 1337
Peak year 19951982
Best rank 3,220th girls137th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd1,279th
First recorded 19201880
Girls / boys 697 / 65746,642 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Cassies alive today are over 37; half the Cashmeres are over 13. That is 24 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: Cashmere and Cassie.