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Casara vs Casey

American parents have registered 194,775 Caseys since 1880, against 118 Casaras. Casey is still ahead, with 1,300 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Casara against Casey, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Casara Casey

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

Casey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1888 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1988, when Casara had 34 and Casey had 7,189.

Side by side

  Casara Casey
Total US births 118194,775
Most in one year 347,510
Babies in 2025 under 51,300
Estimated living today 120184,000
Median age today 3636
Peak year 19881990
Best rank 2,987th girls89th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked320th
First recorded 19871888
Girls / boys 118 / 078,100 / 116,675

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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Casara and Casey.