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Cassidy vs Casyn

American parents have registered 64,583 Cassidys since 1880, against 536 Casyns. Cassidy is still ahead, with 609 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cassidy Casyn

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 2020, when Cassidy had 810 and Casyn had 35.

Side by side

  Cassidy Casyn
Total US births 64,583536
Most in one year 3,44946
Babies in 2025 60918
Estimated living today 64,000530
Median age today 249
Peak year 19992020
Best rank 99th girls3,202nd boys
Rank in 2025 541st5,208th
First recorded 19682000
Girls / boys 60,848 / 3,73526 / 510

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 Casyns are over 9. That is 15 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: Cassidy and Casyn.