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Kasey

#1,876 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Vigilant, from the Casey name family

Kasey has been given to 45,949 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #1,876 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 1,394 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 73% girls, 27% boys all-time.

Babies named Kasey, 2025

1 in 31,600

Kasey over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Kasey over time

In 2025, Kasey went to 37% girls and 63% boys.

19502025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Kasey: meaning, origin, and history

Vigilant, from the Casey name family

English spelling of an Irish surname name

About Kasey

Kasey is an English spelling of Casey, a name taken from an Irish surname. Its older root is associated with vigilance, while its modern use crosses sexes and public settings. Racing driver Kasey Kahne and country singer Kasey Chambers are two recognizable bearers of this particular spelling.

Meaning and origin

Casey comes from the Irish surname Ó Cathasaigh, meaning descendant of Cathassach. The personal name Cathassach means vigilant. Kasey keeps the pronunciation of Casey while replacing its initial letter.

The name belongs to a larger spelling family that includes Kacey, Kacie, Kayce, and Kaycee. Those alternatives developed in English-language use; they are not separate translations of an Irish word. Kasey preserves a sound already familiar through the surname and through given names.

The surname history also distinguishes it from a name formed simply from the spoken initials K and C. Such initials can sound the same, but the documented Casey route has an older personal name behind it.

Pronunciation and short forms

Kasey is pronounced KAY-see, with two syllables and initial stress. Kase is a recorded short form. The final y gives the spelling a familiar English nickname shape, although Kasey is commonly used as the complete given name.

Its use for both boys and girls is reflected in American records and in well-known bearers, rather than being only a theoretical possibility.

Kasey Kahne

American racing driver Kasey Kahne received NASCAR's 2004 Rookie of the Year award. His subsequent Cup career included eighteen victories, bringing the name into the regular vocabulary of American stock-car racing.

The record spans more than one successful season rather than a single win. His racing association is particularly recognizable because Kasey appears alongside the alliterative surname Kahne, preserving this spelling in race reports and career summaries.

Kasey Chambers

Australian singer-songwriter Kasey Chambers supplies a different cultural connection. Her work brought Australian country music to a broad audience, with albums and songs reaching beyond the genre's usual listeners.

She was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2018. Her career provides an international musical association for Kasey and an example of a woman using the same spelling that racing audiences recognize from Kahne. The shared name has a public life in two quite different kinds of performance.

American popularity

Girls' use of Kasey was especially strong in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The best rank was 201 in 1988, while the largest count was 1,394 in 1992. For boys, the best rank was 454 in 1988 and the highest count was 467 in 1990.

In 2025 Kasey was recorded for 105 girls and 180 boys, with ranks of 1,876 and 1,162 respectively. The balance has changed, even though the spelling continues in both series.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning and history draw on the references below. Popularity figures use Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling and sex; counts below five are omitted. Existing Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA. Informal shortening suggestions are identified in the prose.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How popular is Kasey?

In 2025, Kasey ranked #1,876 among girls in the United States, with 105 recorded uses. The U.S. birth records first list this spelling for girls in 1950; its largest annual count was 1,394 in 1992. Rankings count each spelling separately. They describe national use, so local familiarity can differ. The popularity chart shows whether the name has remained common, returned after a quieter period, or risen recently.

How common is Kasey?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 31,600
105 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 15,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,876
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
21,886 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kasey sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 21,886 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kasey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaseys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kasey was born before 1992 — so the typical Kasey is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
33,326
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (11,408).

Is Kasey rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−283
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−429
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−783
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.5%
Peak was 1992 (1,394)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#201
1988

Spellings of Kasey

Kasey is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 43.4% against Kasey's 1.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kasey is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Kasey was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 11,050 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 50,000).

216 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Virginia1 in 6,250
  2. 2Georgia1 in 6,667
  3. 3Maryland1 in 6,667
  4. 4New York1 in 7,692
  5. 5California1 in 9,091
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 9,091
  7. 7Michigan1 in 10,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 10,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Where Kasey is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Kasey was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 17,888 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 50,000).

218 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 5,556
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 10,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 11,111
  4. 4Georgia1 in 12,500
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 12,500
  6. 6Ohio1 in 12,500
  7. 7Washington1 in 12,500
  8. 8New York1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Kasey around the world

Where Kasey ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1990–2024
    #638
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2002–2014
    #247
    in 2014
  • Ireland
    1992–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    2015–2015
    #5,395
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1966–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kasey

People whose public names include Kasey, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kasey in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Kasey. Linked forms have their own page here.

CaseyKayceeKaycieKaysie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Kasey by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,876
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 429
Best rank ever
#201
1988
Peak year
1992
1,394 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
33,326
Count in 2025
105

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,162
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 479
Best rank ever
#454
1988
Peak year
1990
467 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,623
Count in 2025
180

Names similar to Kasey

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Kasey

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kasey, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MayraCarissaTiaAshleighChristianAshleeMeaganDevonShaynaBrianneYeseniaDominique

Sibling names for Kasey

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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