Casey
The boy's name Casey has been in the national records since 1888, with 194,775 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 320th. About 184,000 Caseys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Casey boys named Casey
Girls and boys called Casey
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 78,100 girls and 116,675 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 228 to 1,072.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 110 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 194,775
- Estimated living today
- 184,000
- Median age today
- 36
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 89th
- Rank in 2025
- 320th
- First recorded
- 1888
- Girls / boys
- 78,100 / 116,675
How old the living Caseys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 194,775 babies given the name since 1888, about 184,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 19,000 of them are children and 2,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Anglicisation of an Irish surname Ó Cathasaigh.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Caseys
- Casey Affleck (born 1975)American actor
- Casey Kasem (1932–2014)American voice actor
- Casey Stoner (born 1985)Australian former motorcycle racer
- Casey Dellacqua (born 1985)Australian tennis player
- Casey Neistat (born 1981)American YouTube personality, filmmaker and entrepreneur
- Casey Calvert (born 1990)American actress, model and pornographic actress, and director
- Casey Stoney (born 1982)English association football player
- Casey Wilson (born 1980)American actress and comedian
People named Casey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Casey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Casey is most concentrated in Wyoming (2.2×), Montana (2.0×), Idaho (2.0×), Utah (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular boys’ names the year Casey peaked:
Casey elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Casey | 7,033 | 121st |
| England and Wales boys | Casey | 4,846 | 188th |
| New Zealand girls | Casey | 1,097 | 68th |
| Scotland girls | Casey | 953 | 69th |
| Ireland girls | Casey | 929 | 95th |
| Ireland boys | Casey | 511 | 118th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Casey | 460 | 61st |
| France boys | Casey | 440 | 1,237th |
| Scotland boys | Casey | 364 | 141st |
| Northern Ireland boys | Casey | 170 | 145th |
| France girls | Casey | 140 | 3,378th |
| Belgium boys | Casey | 89 | 692nd |
| Belgium girls | Casey | 73 | 892nd |
| Poland girls | Casey | 3 birth registrations | 599th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Casey: rank by region
In 2019, Casey was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Casey | 842 | 5 |
In 2017, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Casey appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (158th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Casey by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Casey among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Casey | 15 | 21 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Casey against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.