Cassidy

Where Cassidy comes from

From the Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Caiside (“descendant of Caiside”), from cas (“curly-haired”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Cassidy
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1969
    First appearance
    #7,471 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1982
    Cassidy Freeman born
    American actress and singer
  4. 1996
    Cassidy Hutchinson born
    American political staffer
  5. 1999
    Peak, #99
    3,395 babies named Cassidy — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2007
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #207.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern American usage.
  • A community in southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Namesakes
  • Cassidy Freeman · American actress and singer, born 1982
  • Cassidy Hutchinson · American political staffer, born 1996
  • Cassidy Rae · American actress, born 1976
  • Cassidy Gifford · American actress, born 1993
  • Cassidy Krug · American diver, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.