Cassady
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KAS-uh-dee
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Cassady is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “curly-haired”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Cassady mean?
Irish: variant of Cassidy, from the Irish surname Ó Caiside
“curly-haired”
Neal Cassady, the Beat Generation figure, inspired the character Dean Moriarty in Kerouac's On the Road.
Is Cassady a girl's or a boy's name?
Cassady is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cassady in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Cassady, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1999, with 67 girls. It first appears in the records in 1977.
Half of all the girls named Cassady in the US since 1880 were born between 1994 and 2004, the years shaded on the chart below.
Cassady in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,014 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,267 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,707 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,069 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,810 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,577 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,627 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,801 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,815 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,138 |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,302 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,219 |
| 1998 | 64 | #2,218 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,508 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,896 |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,120 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,250 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,216 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,477 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,627 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,518 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,280 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,167 |
| 1987 | 21 | #3,980 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,518 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,346 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,290 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,948 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,222 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,409 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,177 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,311 |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,946 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,442 |
Nicknames for Cassady
Names like Cassady
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan Kennedy Keely Mckenna Devyn Keeley Brianna Brynn Keegan Codi Kerrigan Kiara
Names related to Cassady
Cassidy Chassidy Cassidee Cassadee Cassidi Cassidie Kassady Casidy
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Cassady: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cassady, updated 20 October 2026.