Meaning and history
Casey comes from the Irish surname Casey, the Anglicized form of Ó Cathasaigh, a patronymic based on the given name Cathassach. It may also be given in honour of Casey Jones (1863-1900), the railway engineer who died while saving his passengers. His nickname came from having been raised in Cayce, Kentucky.
20062006: 1,070 births, rank #308
2007: 985 births, rank #324
2008: 976 births, rank #336
2009: 829 births, rank #366
2010: 706 births, rank #398
20112011: 649 births, rank #423
2012: 558 births, rank #483
2013: 559 births, rank #491
2014: 523 births, rank #533
2015: 517 births, rank #555
20162016: 514 births, rank #559
2017: 546 births, rank #524
2018: 470 births, rank #584
2019: 540 births, rank #529
2020: 554 births, rank #517
20212021: 686 births, rank #447
2022: 1,007 births, rank #336
2023: 1,056 births, rank #316
2024: 1,099 births, rank #310
20252025: 1,072 births, rank #320
Casey moved from #310 to #320 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1990, with 4,134 births.