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Cassidy

#541 in the US in 2025

Where Cassidy stands

United States register · 1880–2025

#541girls’ names · US 2025

Cassidy was the 541st most registered girls' name in the United States in 2025, on 558 births.

peak 1999 · 3,395188019532025

Its moment was 1999, when 3,395 babies were given it.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

#541US rank, 2025 (girls)
558US births in 2025
#99its best US rank, in 1999
1999peak year — 3,395 births
60,848US births since 1969
566NZ births since 1994
352E&W births, 2019–2025
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How Cassidy's figures are worked out

  1. Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
  2. Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
  3. The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
  4. The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
  5. A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Cassidy was under the floor in no year of its US record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
reporting floor (share) = 5 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000

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Cassidy in the United States

188019001920194019601980200020200.096191
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 5-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Cassidy in the United States, 1880–2025
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Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been falling — down 45% as a share of girls' births.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Cassidy in New Zealand

In New Zealand, Cassidy has been registered 566 times since 1994, peaking in 1998 with 31 births. It ranked #357 for girls in 2025 on 11 births.

1900192019401960198020002020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 10-BIRTH FLOOR0.092185
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 10-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Cassidy in New Zealand, 1900–2025

SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Cassidy in England & Wales

In England and Wales, Cassidy was registered 352 times between 2019 and 2025, peaking in 2020 with 59 births. It ranked #807 for girls in 2025 on 45 births.

20200.01122
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 3-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Cassidy in England and Wales, 2019–2025
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Seven years is a window, not a history. Unlike the American and New Zealand series this one cannot show you a name's arrival or its long decline — ONS publishes the full list only from 2019. England and Wales only: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not counted here.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Decade by decade in the US

US rank and births at each decade markSSA · JUL 2026
YearRankBirths
1970#4,49212
1980#1,077131
1990#470521
2000#1073,163
2010#2501,286
2020#411765

<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.

Where in the United States

The states that registered Cassidy most often since 1969. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.

StateBirths
California6,258
Texas4,238
Pennsylvania3,064
New York3,057
Florida2,975
Ohio2,654
Illinois2,242
Michigan2,164
North Carolina1,973
Georgia1,895

Questions about Cassidy

How popular is the name Cassidy?

Cassidy ranked #541 for girls in the United States in 2025, on 558 births registered with the Social Security Administration.

When was Cassidy most popular?

Cassidy peaked in 1999, when 3,395 babies in the United States were given the name.

Is Cassidy rising or falling?

Measured as a share of all girls' births, Cassidy has been falling between 2016 and 2025 (-45%).

Same sex, peaking within a few years of 1999, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.

SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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