How rare is the name Kasey?

39,152 people in the United States have the first name Kasey, about 1 in 7,714. It ranks #1,064 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KASEY

#1,064

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
39,152
About
1 in 7,714
This common or more
70.9%
Who bears it

Of the 39,152 people named Kasey, 80.3% reported their origin as White, 6.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.9% as Black. 74.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kasey peaked in 1990, when 1,800 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19502025
Peak year
1990
Births that year
1,800
In 2025*
285 ▼84%
Recorded as
mostly female

At least 45,949 babies have been given the name since 1950. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Kasey by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #406. The largest share of babies named Kasey, 50.3%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1950s#5,386116
1960s#2,092747
1970s#8224,468
1980s#41412,721
1990s#40614,895
2000s#7817,708
2010s#1,4603,596
2020s#1,7571,698
Baby boom 1946–640.7%
Generation X 1965–8012.9%
Millennials 1981–9650.3%
Generation Z 1997–1227.5%
2013 and later8.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Kasey is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kasey has been most common in Utah (1.8×), Washington (1.6×), and Oklahoma (1.5×), and least common in New Mexico (0.34×).

39,935 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kasey, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Kasey ranks #27,651 of 156,621, with 923 people. See Kasey as a last name

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