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Kasey vs Kashif

American parents have registered 45,949 Kaseys since 1880, against 921 Kashifs. Kasey is still ahead, with 285 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kasey Kashif

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 1985, when Kasey had 1,176 and Kashif had 69.

Side by side

  Kasey Kashif
Total US births 45,949921
Most in one year 1,80069
Babies in 2025 2855
Estimated living today 45,000880
Median age today 3335
Peak year 19921985
Best rank 204th girls1,116th boys
Rank in 2025 1,872nd12,008th
First recorded 19501973
Girls / boys 33,326 / 12,6230 / 921

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 Kashifs alive today are over 35; half the Kaseys are over 33. That is 2 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 Kasey Kashif
England and Wales 2,167389
Scotland 26936
France 8015

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: Kasey and Kashif.