Cassidy is derived from an Irish surname, ultimately from Caiside, meaning ‘clever’ or ‘curly-haired.’ Caiside was a byname based on the word ‘cas’ for ‘twisted, curly’.
Cassidy is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Cassidy isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Cassidy ranks 303. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 6 were named Cassidy. In the entire USA, approximately 58,754 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Cassidy. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Cassidy is derived from an Irish surname, ultimately from Caiside, meaning ‘clever’ or ‘curly-haired.’ Caiside was a byname based on the word ‘cas’ for ‘twisted, curly’.
Before 1980, ... Cassidy was a very rare name, but since then it has become more common.
The name Cassidy may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Cassidy is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,034 women in Nevada is called Cassidy. In total, that’s 432 women who feel addressed when the name Cassidy is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #275 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Cassidy as the answer a total of 57,557 times. This places Cassidy at #476 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Cassidy as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With seven letters, the name Cassidy has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Cassidy and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cassidy, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Sun
Sun
Igloo
Dinosaur
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cassidy
Cassidy
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
S
S
I
D
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
A
S
S
I
D
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cassidy sounds like this:
