Cassandra
Cassandra is ranked 613th among girls in 2024 (485 births). Its best rank was 49th, in 1990.
- Rank in 2024
- #613up 26 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4850.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 19907,054 births
- Best rank
- #49in 1990
- Since 1902
- 170,543people given the name
The story in the numbers
170,543 girls have been named Cassandra in the United States since 1902, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 7,054 births — 0.37% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 514 → 613).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 1990s alone account for 30%. It has spent 83 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 19 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Cassandra | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 10 | |
| 1910s | 61 | |
| 1920s | 76 | |
| 1930s | 164 | |
| 1940s | 2,660 | |
| 1950s | 7,692 | |
| 1960s | 16,765 | |
| 1970s | 19,018 | |
| 1980s | 44,911 | |
| 1990s | 50,362 | |
| 2000s | 20,129 | |
| 2010s | 6,363 | |
| 2020s | 2,332 |
In 1990, its biggest year
Cassandra was the 49th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1990 were Jessica, Ashley, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1990.
Names that rose and fell with Cassandra
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Laurinpeak 1990
- Janeepeak 1989
- Casandrapeak 1990
- Chantalpeak 1990
- Deandreapeak 1992
- Stefanipeak 1990
- Krystynapeak 1990
- Kandacepeak 1988
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.