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Kasch vs Kasey

American parents have registered 45,949 Kaseys since 1880, against 199 Kasches. Kasey is still ahead, with 285 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kasch against Kasey, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kasch Kasey

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

Kasey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1950 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Kasch had 14 and Kasey had 248.

Side by side

  Kasch Kasey
Total US births 19945,949
Most in one year 191,800
Babies in 2025 8285
Estimated living today 20045,000
Median age today 1233
Peak year 20141992
Best rank 4,866th boys204th girls
Rank in 2025 8,910th1,872nd
First recorded 20061950
Girls / boys 0 / 19933,326 / 12,623

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 Kaseys alive today are over 33; half the Kasches are over 12. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kasch and Kasey.