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Kassey

Gender
Girl
Say it
KAY-see
Origin
Irish
US rank, 2025
#13,203 for girls

Kassey is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “vigilant, watchful”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

What does Kassey mean?

Irish: spelling of Kasey, itself a spelling of Casey, from an Irish surname

“vigilant, watchful”

Spelling of Casey, from the Irish surname Ó Cathasaigh; Casey Jones was a celebrated American railroad engineer.

Meaning borrowed from Kasey. More on Wiktionary.

Is Kassey a girl's or a boy's name?

Kassey is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kassey in the US?

Rank in 2025
#13,203among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 270,000 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, 6 girls in the US were named Kassey, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1992, with 37 girls. It first appears in the records in 1978.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Kassey than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Kassey in the US since 1880 were born between 1989 and 2005, the years shaded on the chart below.

1978Busiest: 37 in 19922025
Kassey in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20248#11,117
20239#10,307
202213#8,027
202122#5,569
20200–
20197#12,442
20186#13,788
20178#11,611
20167#12,871
201510#10,143
201411#9,512
201312#9,031
20126#14,956
20118#12,146
201012#9,227
20095#17,288
20089#11,594
200712#9,535
200611#9,897
20059#10,915
200416#7,072
200314#7,575
200217#6,386
200114#7,311
200027#4,395
199927#4,197
199829#3,911
199722#4,656
199612#7,125
199518#5,216
199428#3,785
199320#4,820
199237#3,086
199129#3,627
199027#3,808
198927#3,667
198827#3,478
198721#3,980
198621#3,888
198522#3,729
198414#4,965
198313#5,147
198215#4,714
198119#4,004
198010#6,318
19799#6,694
197812#5,214

Names like Kassey

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Kassey

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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, “Kassey: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kassey, updated 20 October 2026.