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Cason vs Cassie

American parents have registered 47,027 Cassies since 1880, against 11,388 Casons. But in 2025 it was Cason that was commoner, 296 babies to 175.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cason 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, Cassie for 128 years and Cason for 18 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cason Cassie
Total US births 11,38847,027
Most in one year 7312,207
Babies in 2025 296175
Estimated living today 11,00040,000
Median age today 1237
Peak year 20141982
Best rank 424th boys137th girls
Rank in 2025 846th1,279th
First recorded 19731880
Girls / boys 80 / 11,30846,642 / 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 Casons are over 12. That is 25 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Cason Cassie
England and Wales 1482,408
Northern Ireland 3563
Scotland 6556

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: Cason and Cassie.