Cassidie — girls' name
464 babies named Cassidie in U.S. Social Security records since 1981, with the highest year being 1998. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
40% of everyone ever named Cassidie was born in this single decade.
31 babies were named Cassidie in 1998 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Cassidie
The Social Security Administration has registered 464 babies named Cassidie between 1981 and 2017, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cassidie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 31 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Cassidie performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 186 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Cassidie shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Cassidie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Cassidie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 464 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Cassidie at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Cassidie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1981
- Peak year (1998)
- 31
- Annual births at peak — across 37 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
464 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1998 with 31 births in a single year.
Cassidie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 186 births that decade — 40% of Cassidie's all-time total
Cassidie decade highlights
- Peak decade 186 births
- Runner-up 181 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Cassidie's strongest decade
186 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Cassidie by state
Where Cassidie concentrates geographically — total births since 1981
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 6 | 1.3% |
6 of 464 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1981–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.