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Cashton vs Cassidy

American parents have registered 64,583 Cassidys since 1880, against 2,891 Cashtons. Cassidy is still ahead, with 609 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cashton 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

Cassidy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Cashton had 193 and Cassidy had 609.

Side by side

  Cashton Cassidy
Total US births 2,89164,583
Most in one year 2163,449
Babies in 2025 193609
Estimated living today 2,90064,000
Median age today 724
Peak year 20241999
Best rank 1,031st boys99th girls
Rank in 2025 1,112th541st
First recorded 19991968
Girls / boys 0 / 2,89160,848 / 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 Cassidys alive today are over 24; half the Cashtons are over 7. That is 17 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: Cashton and Cassidy.