Casey (given name)
Casey is a given name, originally derived from the Irish Gaelic cathasaigh, meaning "vigilant" or "watchful". It can be used as a nickname for the name Cassandra or the initials K.C. It is in use for girls or boys in both the United States, the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries.
It has ranked among the 1,000 most used names for American boys between 1900 and 1919 and again from 1942 to 2022. It was the 336th most popular name for boys born in the United States in 2022. It ranked among the 1,000 most popular names for girls in the United States between 1967 and 2019 and again in 2022. It ranked 946th for newborn American girls in 2022. The name was among the top 200 names for both sexes in the 1990s.
Kayce, a spelling variant, ranked 587th for American newborn boys on the U.S. popularity chart in 2022. The increase in usage of the name was inspired by the popularity of the television series Yellowstone that is set in modern-day Montana and of its spinoffs, 1883 and 1923, about ancestors of the family. The name might evoke the American frontier for some new parents. Place name Kaycee, Wyoming uses another spelling variation.
Some other spelling variants in use for both sexes include Cacee, Cacey, Caci, Cacie, Caicey, Cacy, Casi, Casie, Cayce, Caycee, Caysea, Caysee, Caysi, Caysie, Kacee, Kacey, Kaci, Kacie, Kaicee, Kacy, Kaice, Kaicey, Kaisey, Kasey, Kasi, Kasie, Kayci, Kaycie, Kaysea, Kaysee, Kaysey, Kaysi, Kaysie, KC, Keisi, Keize, and Kejsi.
People
Men
Given name
- Casey Abrams, American Idol contestant and musician
- Casey Affleck, American actor, brother of actor/director Ben Affleck
- Casey Atwood, American racecar driver
- Casey Bauman, American football player
- Casey Beathard, American country music songwriter
- Casey Blake, American baseball player
- Casey Candaele, American baseball player
- Casey Colby, American ski jumper
- Casey Conley, American politician
- Casey Connor, American lacrosse player
- Casey Cott, American actor
- Casey Crawford, American professional basketball player
- Casey Crawford (American football), American football player
- Casey Daigle, American baseball player
- Casey Dailey, American football player
- Casey Deidrick, American actor and singer
- Casey Dunn, American baseball coach and former catcher
- Casey Dunn (American football), American football player
- Casey Ellison, American actor
- Casey Fossum, American baseball player
- Casey Haines, American ice hockey player
- Casey Hampton, American NFL football nose tackle
- Casey Hudson, American game developer
- Casey Jacobsen, American basketball player
- Casey Jones (disambiguation)
- Case Keenum, American football quarterback
- Casey Kennedy, American professional golfer
- Casey Kotchman, American baseball player
- Casey Kozlowski, member of the Ohio House of Representatives
- Casey Laulala, New Zealand rugby union player
- Casey Lawrence, American baseball pitcher
- Casey Martin, American golfer and college golf coach
- Casey Matthews, American football linebacker
- Casey McGehee, American baseball infielder
- Casey McPherson, American singer and songwriter for Flying Colors and Alpha Rev
- Casey Mears, American racecar driver
- Casey Mitchell (basketball), basketball player for Elitzur Ashkelon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Casey Nicholaw, American theatre director
- Casey Neistat, American filmmaker
- Casey Owens, United States Marine and Paralympic athlete
- Casey Owens (basketball), American basketball coach in Kosovo
- Casey Patton, Canadian boxer
- Casey Powell, American lacrosse player
- Casey Prather, American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Casey Rabach, American football player
- Casey Roberts, American set decorator
- Casey Rogers, American football player
- Casey Royer, American musician
- Casey Schmitt, American baseball player for the San Francisco Giants
- Casey Shaw, American basketball center
- Casey Spooner, American artist
- Casey Stoner, Australian motorcyclist
- Casey Thompson, American football player
- Casey Tibbs, American rodeo performer and actor
- Casey Tiumalu, American football player
- Casey Toohill, American football player
- Casey Tucker, American football player
- Casey Viator, American bodybuilder
- Casey Walker, American football player
- Casey Walker (baseball), American Negro league catcher in the 1930s
- Casey Washington, American football player
- Casey Weldon, former American football player
- Casey Weldon (artist), American post-pop surrealism artist
- Casey Wescott, musician with the band Fleet Foxes
Nickname
- Casey Cagle, American politician
- Clinton D. "Casey" Vincent, American brigadier general and flying ace
- Casey Donovan (singer), Australian singer
- Casey Jones, American railroad engineer
- Casey Kasem, American radio personality
- Casey Sander, American actor
- Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager
- Casey Bill Weldon, American country blues musician
Women
Given name
- Casey Anthony, American woman accused of killing her two-year-old daughter
- Casey Burgess, Australian actress
- Casey Dellacqua, Australian tennis player
- Casey DeSantis, former American television host, wife of Florida governor Ron DeSantis
- Casey Desmond, American singer-songwriter
- Casey Foyt, American football executive
- Casey Gallagher, English darts player
- Casey Krueger, American soccer player
- Casey Loyd, American soccer player
- Casey O'Brien, American ice hockey player
- Casey Phair, American–South Korean footballer
- Casey Reinhardt, American actress
- Casey Stoney, English footballer and manager
- Casey Zilbert, New Zealand screenwriter and film director
Nickname
- Casey Williamson, American murder victim
- Casey Wilson, American actress
Stage name
- Casey Calvert, American pornographic film actress
- Casey Donovan (actor), American pornographic actor John Calvin Culver
- Casey Jones, British singer Brian Cassar
- Casey Jones, alternate identity for radio personality Al Anthony
- Casey Jones, television persona of Lunch With Casey show host Roger Awsumb
Fictional characters
- Casey, in the 1888 poem Casey at the Bat
- Casey, the puppet companion of Mr. Dressup
- Casey Becker, in the film Scream (1996 film) played by Drew Barrymore
- Casey Braxton, from the Australian soap opera Home and Away
- Casey Calderón, a character in Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.
- Casey Carlyle, in the 2005 film Ice Princess played by Michelle Trachtenberg
- Casey Cartwright, on the television series Greek
- Casey Connor, in the 1998 film The Faculty played by Elijah Wood
- Casey Cooke, a main character in the 2016 film Split played by Anya Taylor-Joy
- Casey "Cici" Cooper, a character in Scream 2
- Casey Gardner, from the television series Atypical
- Casey Hughes, on the soap opera As the World Turns
- Casey Jones, in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe
- Casey Junior, a locomotive in the 1941 film Dumbo
- Casey Kelso, on the television series That '70s Show
- Casey Matthis, a character in the 2013 American comedy film We're the Millers
- Casey McCall, on the television series Sports Night
- Casey McDonald, one of the main characters and Derek's stepsister on the television series Life with Derek
- Casey Newton, in the 2015 film Tomorrowland played by Britt Robertson
- Casey Novak, on the television series Law & Order: SVU
- Casey Jean "C.J." Parker from the television series Baywatch played by Pamela Anderson
- Casey Parker, from the television series Grey’s Anatomy
- Casey Poe, Cameron Poe's daughter in the 1997 film Con Air played by Landry Allbright
- Casey Refrains, in Harold Pinter's play Betrayal
- Casey Rhodes, the Red Ranger in Power Rangers Jungle Fury
- Casey Ryback, in the Under Siege films played by Steven Seagal
- Casey Shraeger, a character in the television series The Unusuals
- Casey Swine, on the Australian television series ''Blinky Bill''