Kasey

Kasey is another turn on Casey, from the Irish Ó Cathasaigh, descendant of the watchful one. The s in the middle softens what the K begins, giving it a slightly different texture than its Kacey cousin, more suburban cul-de-sac than neon honky-tonk. It came into wider use in the seventies and eighties alongside other K-front respellings and has held on ever since, now at 1163. Unisex and easy, two syllables landing on a long ee, Kasey reads approachable without reading plain, a name that tends to show up on team rosters, book-club sign-ups, and well-worn baseball caps alike.