How popular is “Cassidy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cassidy” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cassidy” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Cassidy” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Cassidy” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Cassidy” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Cassidy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cassidy” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1968	5	0.00000148		5	-100%
1969	10	0.000002877	5	5	0%
1970	25	0.000006932	12	13	-4%
1971	43	0.000012528	17	26	-21%
1972	54	0.000017181	32	22	19%
1973	53	0.000017568	28	25	6%
1974	78	0.000025658	36	42	-8%
1975	86	0.000028483	54	32	26%
1976	114	0.00003757	62	52	9%
1977	125	0.000039352	72	53	15%
1978	147	0.000046316	102	45	39%
1979	149	0.000044785	108	41	45%
1980	195	0.000056612	131	64	34%
1981	217	0.000062728	157	60	45%
1982	287	0.000081814	219	68	53%
1983	521	0.000150433	358	163	37%
1984	575	0.000164815	406	169	41%
1985	567	0.000158863	416	151	47%
1986	472	0.000132693	371	101	57%
1987	516	0.00014311	396	120	53%
1988	521	0.000141	405	116	55%
1989	606	0.00015763	482	124	59%
1990	646	0.000163442	521	125	61%
1991	712	0.000182786	610	102	71%
1992	844	0.000219719	725	119	72%
1993	1137	0.000301569	1028	109	81%
1994	2420	0.000650948	2306	114	91%
1995	3129	0.000854415	3042	87	94%
1996	2922	0.000801164	2844	78	95%
1997	3198	0.000882025	3143	55	97%
1998	3102	0.000843346	3045	57	96%
1999	3449	0.00093371	3395	54	97%
2000	3205	0.000847905	3163	42	97%
2001	3068	0.000819578	3029	39	97%
2002	2668	0.000713695	2634	34	97%
2003	2259	0.000594111	2235	24	98%
2004	2066	0.000540707	2007	59	94%
2005	1873	0.000487146	1833	40	96%
2006	1840	0.000465094	1771	69	93%
2007	1709	0.000427498	1656	53	94%
2008	1556	0.000395862	1490	66	92%
2009	1414	0.00037014	1359	55	92%
2010	1337	0.000361768	1286	51	92%
2011	1176	0.000321505	1126	50	91%
2012	1190	0.000325371	1140	50	92%
2013	1329	0.000364542	1274	55	92%
2014	1356	0.000365856	1311	45	93%
2015	1278	0.00034532	1236	42	93%
2016	1182	0.000322185	1123	59	90%
2017	1072	0.00029976	1002	70	87%
2018	945	0.000268779	869	76	84%
2019	920	0.000265058	865	55	88%
2020	810	0.000242473	765	45	89%
2021	698	0.000206024	655	43	88%
2022	708	0.000209273	659	49	86%
2023	672	0.000202948	617	55	84%
2024	707	0.000212408	646	61	83%

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