Casey
Casey is ranked 310th among boys in 2024 (1,096 births). Its best rank was 80th, in 1987.
- Rank in 2024
- #310up 6 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,0960.06% of boys
- Peak year
- 19904,133 births
- Best rank
- #80in 1987
- Since 1888
- 193,458people given the name
The story in the numbers
115,589 boys have been named Casey in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 4,133 births — 0.20% of all boys recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 532 → 310).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1980s alone account for 31%. It has spent 101 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 14 of them in the top 100.
Casey is used for both sexes: 40% of its bearers are girls (77,869), most of them born around 1987.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Casey | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 37 | |
| 1900s | 89 | |
| 1910s | 444 | |
| 1920s | 347 | |
| 1930s | 277 | |
| 1940s | 571 | |
| 1950s | 2,656 | |
| 1960s | 4,724 | |
| 1970s | 18,988 | |
| 1980s | 35,966 | |
| 1990s | 29,250 | |
| 2000s | 12,261 | |
| 2010s | 5,578 | |
| 2020s | 4,395 |
In 1990, its biggest year
Casey was the 89th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1990 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 1990.
Names that rose and fell with Casey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kristoferpeak 1978
- Korypeak 1989
- Travispeak 1989
- Matthewpeak 1983
- Dontapeak 1991
- Toreypeak 1987
- Rodriquezpeak 1992
- Derikpeak 1987
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.