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Kashton vs Kassidy

American parents have registered 21,715 Kassidys since 1880, against 7,708 Kashtons. But in 2025 it was Kashton that was commoner, 797 babies to 247.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kashton against Kassidy, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kashton Kassidy

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 50 years in which either name was published, Kassidy for 42 years and Kashton for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kashton Kassidy
Total US births 7,70821,715
Most in one year 8641,012
Babies in 2025 797247
Estimated living today 7,70021,000
Median age today 419
Peak year 20222000
Best rank 378th boys314th girls
Rank in 2025 400th1,038th
First recorded 20041975
Girls / boys 50 / 7,65821,282 / 433

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 Kassidys alive today are over 19; half the Kashtons are over 4. That is 15 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 Kashton Kassidy
England and Wales 8207

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: Kashton and Kassidy.