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Kasey vs Kashton

American parents have registered 45,949 Kaseys since 1880, against 7,708 Kashtons. But in 2025 it was Kashton that was commoner, 797 babies to 285.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kasey Kashton

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

Of the 74 years in which either name was published, Kasey for 65 years and Kashton for 9 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kasey Kashton
Total US births 45,9497,708
Most in one year 1,800864
Babies in 2025 285797
Estimated living today 45,0007,700
Median age today 334
Peak year 19922022
Best rank 204th girls378th boys
Rank in 2025 1,872nd400th
First recorded 19502004
Girls / boys 33,326 / 12,62350 / 7,658

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 Kashtons are over 4. That is 29 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 Kashton
England and Wales 2,1678

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 Kashton.