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Casimer vs Cassie

American parents have registered 47,027 Cassies since 1880, against 1,895 Casimers. Cassie is still ahead, with 175 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Casimer against Cassie, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Casimer Cassie

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

Cassie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1918, when Casimer had 135 and Cassie had 188.

Side by side

  Casimer Cassie
Total US births 1,89547,027
Most in one year 1352,207
Babies in 2025 under 5175
Estimated living today 18040,000
Median age today 7537
Peak year 19181982
Best rank 515th boys137th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,279th
First recorded 18951880
Girls / boys 0 / 1,89546,642 / 385

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 Casimers alive today are over 75; half the Cassies are over 37. That is 38 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.

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