Casey

63,424 people in the United States were counted with the surname Casey in the 2020 census, making it the 519th most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,713.

By the numbers

People: 63,424
Rank: 519th
How common: 1 in 4,713
Per 100,000: 21.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicisation of an Irish surname Ó Cathasaigh.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Casey described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 83.7%
Black, not Hispanic 7.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Surnames like Casey

Also a first name

Casey has been given to 194,775 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 1990. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.