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Cassaundra vs Cassidy

American parents have registered 64,583 Cassidys since 1880, against 2,393 Cassaundras. Cassidy is still ahead, with 609 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cassaundra 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

Of the 78 years in which either name was published, Cassidy for 55 years and Cassaundra for 23 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cassaundra Cassidy
Total US births 2,39364,583
Most in one year 1493,449
Babies in 2025 under 5609
Estimated living today 2,30064,000
Median age today 3724
Peak year 19891999
Best rank 1,111th girls99th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked541st
First recorded 19471968
Girls / boys 2,393 / 060,848 / 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 Cassaundras alive today are over 37; half the Cassidys are over 24. That is 13 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: Cassaundra and Cassidy.