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Kasey vs Kashdon

American parents have registered 45,949 Kaseys since 1880, against 79 Kashdons. Kasey is still ahead, with 285 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kasey Kashdon

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 2017, when Kasey had 325 and Kashdon had 30.

Side by side

  Kasey Kashdon
Total US births 45,94979
Most in one year 1,80030
Babies in 2025 2857
Estimated living today 45,00080
Median age today 337
Peak year 19922017
Best rank 204th girls3,586th boys
Rank in 2025 1,872nd9,714th
First recorded 19502017
Girls / boys 33,326 / 12,6230 / 79

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 Kashdons are over 7. That is 26 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: Kasey and Kashdon.