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Kassey vs Kassidy

American parents have registered 21,715 Kassidys since 1880, against 743 Kasseys. Kassidy is still ahead, with 247 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kassey 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

Kassidy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1981, when Kassey had 19 and Kassidy had 25.

Side by side

  Kassey Kassidy
Total US births 74321,715
Most in one year 371,012
Babies in 2025 6247
Estimated living today 73021,000
Median age today 2919
Peak year 19922000
Best rank 3,091st girls314th girls
Rank in 2025 13,208th1,038th
First recorded 19781975
Girls / boys 738 / 521,282 / 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 Kasseys alive today are over 29; half the Kassidys are over 19. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kassey Kassidy
England and Wales 14207

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: Kassey and Kassidy.