Cassity — girls' name
358 babies named Cassity in U.S. Social Security records since 1976, 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 Cassity was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Cassity in 1998 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Cassity
The Social Security Administration has registered 358 babies named Cassity between 1976 and 2016, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cassity currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 27 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Cassity performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 144 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Cassity shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Cassity in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Cassity 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 358 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.
Cassity at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Cassity popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1976
- Peak year (1998)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 41 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
358 total births across 41 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1998 with 27 births in a single year.
Cassity by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 144 births that decade — 40% of Cassity's all-time total
Cassity decade highlights
- Peak decade 144 births
- Runner-up 107 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Cassity's strongest decade
144 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Cassity by state
Where Cassity concentrates geographically — total births since 1976
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 11 | 3.1% |
11 of 358 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 3.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 3.1% 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, 1976–2016 (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.