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Kashdon vs Kassidy

American parents have registered 21,715 Kassidys since 1880, against 79 Kashdons. Kassidy is still ahead, with 247 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kashdon 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 2017, when Kashdon had 30 and Kassidy had 634.

Side by side

  Kashdon Kassidy
Total US births 7921,715
Most in one year 301,012
Babies in 2025 7247
Estimated living today 8021,000
Median age today 719
Peak year 20172000
Best rank 3,586th boys314th girls
Rank in 2025 9,714th1,038th
First recorded 20171975
Girls / boys 0 / 7921,282 / 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 Kashdons are over 7. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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