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 [ 2 syll. ca-sey, cas-ey ] The girl name Casey is also used as a boy name, and more commonly so. It is pronounced KEYSiy KEY. Casey's origin is Greek, Celtic, Old Greek, and Latin, and its use, English. From Greek, Celtic, Old Greek, and Latin roots, its meaning is 'descendant of Cathasaigh, descendant of the vigilant one'. Derived from the word cathasaigh with the meaning 'vigilant, wakeful'. It represents the transferred use of the surname as a given name. See Casey for more info. Casey has 38 forms. Forms of the name include Cascy, Casen, Casi, Casse, Cassee, Cassey, Casy, Cayce, Cayse, Cazzi, Kasci, Kayce, and Kayse. Other English forms include the pet forms Cass and Kace, and the spelling variants Cacey, Caci, Cacy, Casie, Cassye, Cayci, Caysie, Kacee, Kacey, Kaci, Kacie, Kacy, Kacye, Kaissie, Kasee, Kasey, Kasi, Kasie, Kaycee, Kayci, Kaycie, Kaysee, and Kaysie. In addition, Casey is a pet form of the English Cassia. Casey is also a form of the English Acacia. Casey is also a pet form (English) of the English and German Cassandra. Casey is rather popular as a baby girl name. The name grew in popularity from the 1960s up to the 1980s; prior to that, it was of only very modest use. At the height of its usage in 1987, 0.191% of baby girls were named Casey. It was #81 in rank then. The baby name has dropped in popularity since then. In 2008, it ranked at #466 with a usage of 0.033%, but it was nevertheless the 2nd most popular after the English and German Cassandra, within all girl names in its family. It was 74% more popular than Casey in 2008. Although there were times from 1995 to 1998 that Casey was more popular with girls, today it is used more commonly as a boy name. In 2007, 33% more boys than girls were given the name Casey. Baby names that sound like Casey include the English Cacy, the English Casi, the English Casie, the English Cayci, the English Caysie, the English Kacee, the English Kacey, the English Kacy, the English Kacye, the English Kasee, the English Kaycee, the English Kayci, the English Kaycie, the English Kaysie, the Portuguese Cacau, the English Cacey, the English Caci, the English Cacia, the Italian Caia, and the English Cascy. KEY: Pronunciation for Casey: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"   |
