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Kasey vs Kashonna

American parents have registered 45,949 Kaseys since 1880, against 36 Kashonnas. Kasey is still ahead, with 285 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kasey Kashonna

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 1984, when Kasey had 1,138 and Kashonna had 15.

Side by side

  Kasey Kashonna
Total US births 45,94936
Most in one year 1,80015
Babies in 2025 285under 5
Estimated living today 45,00040
Median age today 3340
Peak year 19921984
Best rank 204th girls4,737th girls
Rank in 2025 1,872ndunranked
First recorded 19501984
Girls / boys 33,326 / 12,62336 / 0

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 Kashonnas alive today are over 40; half the Kaseys are over 33. That is 7 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 Kashonna.