Cassidy

#541 for girls in 2025, 558 births · #2,572 for boys in 2025, 51 births
Given to girls 94.2% of the time

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Peak · girls
1999 · 3,395 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
1 yr
of 146 years
Total births · girls
60,848
since 1969

Cassidy over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201969peak #99, 1999peak #665, 1984girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#541558#2,57251
2024#478646#2,31361
2023#495620#2,44155
2022#478661#2,67549
2021#478655#2,86243
2020#411765#2,72845
2019#368865#2,42155
2018#361869#1,93776
2017#3261,003#2,01470
2016#2891,123#2,25559
2015#2571,236#2,80942
2014#2471,311#2,66145
2013#2501,276#2,29955
2012#2801,140#2,48850
2011#2821,126#2,47850
2010#2501,286#2,42951
2009#2441,360#2,34855
2008#2281,491#2,08866
2007#2071,657#2,41653
2006#1991,771#1,94369
2005#1891,833#2,70140
2004#1682,007#2,02459
2003#1502,235#3,62624
2002#1312,634#2,75534
2001#1073,029#2,48939
2000#1073,163#2,29842
1999#993,395#1,82454
1998#1133,045#1,76857
1997#1053,143#1,75355
1996#1092,844#1,36878
1995#1083,042#1,24487
1994#1392,306#1,041114
1993#2671,028#1,060109
1992#354725#987119
1991#418610#1,077102
1990#470521#921125
1989#487482#911124
1988#538405#884116
1987#521396#852120
1986#546371#912101
1985#491416#718151
1984#492406#665169
1983#530358#669163
1982#756219#1,10768
1981#942157#1,18860
1980#1,077131#1,13364
1979#1,204108#1,46441
1978#1,221102#1,37145
1977#1,51472#1,21053
1976#1,60262#1,19052
1975#1,72954#1,59332
1974#2,21336#1,31142
1973#2,56528#1,78225
1972#2,31132#1,92822
1971#3,65217#1,74526
1970#4,49212#2,62113
1969#7,4715#4,4045
1968#4,1365
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First appearance
1969

The first year at least five girls were named Cassidy! It came in at #7,471, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Cassidy
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 63 spots since 2024 (#478#541)
  • 130 spots since 2020 (#411#541)
  • 284 spots since 2015 (#257#541)
  • Biggest jump: 226 spots in 1983 (#756#530)
  • Biggest drop: 67 spots in 2021 (#411#478)
Rise & fade · girls
30 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1969
  • Peaked 1999 at #99 (3,395 births)
  • Births halved by 2007, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 100 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 1 yr · 1999
  • Top 1,000: 45 yrs · run 1981–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 522
  • Highest: 1 in 522 girls born in 1999 were named Cassidy (0.19%)
  • Latest: 1 in 2,880 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 34.8% of all girls named Cassidy (21,180) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1975
  • Mostly boys until 1974, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s5#7,471 (1969)#7,471
1970s523#1,204 (1979)#2,250
1980s3,341#487 (1989)#638
1990s20,659#99 (1999)#218
2000s21,180#107 (2000)#173
2010s11,235#247 (2014)#291
2020s3,905#411 (2020)#480

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Cassidy in 1969

girls
#7,471
5 births · 1 in 337,403 girls
boys
#4,404
5 births · 1 in 357,635 boys

Top girls' names in 1969

  1. #1Lisa45,028
  2. #2Michelle34,319
  3. #3Jennifer33,705
  4. #4Kimberly33,077
  5. #5Melissa23,018
  6. #6Amy21,464
  7. #7Angela21,060
  8. #8Mary19,850
  9. #9Tammy19,053
  10. #10Laura17,922
  11. #7,471Cassidy5

Top boys' names in 1969

  1. #1Michael85,162
  2. #2David63,672
  3. #3James59,886
  4. #4John58,732
  5. #5Robert58,300
  6. #6William37,607
  7. #7Christopher35,672
  8. #8Mark33,388
  9. #9Brian31,669
  10. #10Richard31,085
  11. #4,404Cassidy5
More about 1969

girls

1,687,016 girls got a published name in 1969; 1 in 337,403 of them was named Cassidy, which outranked 14.2% of the 8,708 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cassidy
  1. #6,617Yevonne6
  2. #6,617Yoshiko6
  3. #6,617Zonya6
  4. #7,471Cassidy5
  5. #7,471Adana5
  6. #7,471Adine5
  7. #7,471Adreana5

Tied with 1,237 names at #7,471; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1968
Risers
  1. 1,462Shani#2,126#664
  2. 1,203Julissa#2,164#961
  3. 1,133Chelsea#1,834#701
  4. 667Latasha#1,519#852
  5. 549Britt#1,519#970
Fallers
  1. 455Tamiko#552#1,007
  2. 345Alesia#697#1,042
  3. 324Vickey#966#1,290
  4. 308Bettina#746#1,054
  5. 293Cammie#846#1,139

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,788,174 boys got a published name in 1969; 1 in 357,635 of them was named Cassidy, which outranked 12.7% of the 5,043 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 27.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cassidy
  1. #3,935Zach6
  2. #3,935Zeb6
  3. #3,935Zenon6
  4. #4,404Cassidy5
  5. #4,404Abbott5
  6. #4,404Adrean5
  7. #4,404Adrin5

Tied with 639 names at #4,404; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1968
Risers
  1. 1,735Dedric#2,735#1,000
  2. 780Jameson#1,731#951
  3. 589Torrey#1,393#804
  4. 549Jamison#1,258#709
  5. 534Jemal#1,083#549
Fallers
  1. 449Artis#877#1,326
  2. 410Kennedy#986#1,396
  3. 408Alfie#968#1,376
  4. 360Micky#861#1,221
  5. 356Montgomery#946#1,302

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1969