Girls' name · peaked in 1982

Cassie name popularity since 1925

42,570 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Cassie (99.4% girls, 0.6% boys). Half of them were born in 1987 or earlier, so the typical Cassie is about 39 years old in 2026. Cassie peaked in 1982 as the #137 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

Key facts

US babies since 1925
42,570
Named Cassie, 1925–2025
Peak year
1982
#137 for girls that year
Typical age
About 39
Median birth year 1987
In 2025
Not top 1,000
#1,280 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys
99.4% girls
42,304 girls · 266 boys
Most popular in
Utah
2.39× its national share

Peak year is the year Cassie made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Cassie births per year, 1925–2025

Babies named Cassie per year, 1925–2025

1982 was the biggest year for Cassie both by count and as a share of all babies.

  • Fastest rise: Between 1977 and 1982, Cassie became 4× more common, from 1 in 3,100 baby girls to 1 in 772.
  • Steepest fall: Between 1999 and 2004, its share of baby girls fell by 59%, from 1 in 1,850 to 1 in 4,460.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Cassie's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Cassie.

Decade by decade

Babies named Cassie in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade GirlsBoys Rank
1925–29 57714 –
1930s 79440 #798
1940s 86322 #995
1950s 1,20329 #1,004
1960s 1,54712 #785
1970s 4,34337 #488
1980s 15,75992 #170
1990s 9,44520 #358
2000s 4,6540 #715
2010s 2,0120 #1,260
2020–25 1,1070 #1,280

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

51.3% of babies named Cassie from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Millennial years (1981–1996). The full split by generation:

Cassie by generation Greatest Generation born 1925–27 0.9% Silent Generation born 1928–45 3.5% Baby Boomers born 1946–64 5.7% Gen X born 1965–80 14.0% Millennials born 1981–96 51.3% Gen Z born 1997–2012 18.7% Gen Alpha born 2013–25 5.8%

Where Cassie is most popular

The index compares Cassie's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Cassie.

StateIndexBabies
Utah2.39×790
Kentucky1.81×1,177
Arkansas1.80×718
Tennessee1.76×1,439
Louisiana1.74×1,209

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Cassie and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

SpellingGirlsPeak year
Cassie (this page) 42,304 1982
Kassie 7,029 1987
Casie 4,800 1983
Cassi 2,361 1982
Cassy 1,996 1986
Cassey 1,691 1986
Casi 1,080 1986

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Cassie's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Cassie.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Cassie (1982).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data