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Cassandra

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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
Babies named Cassandra, by year of birthgirls
02.5k5k7.5k10k18801900192019401960198020002020

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

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Cassandra
1900s10
1910s61
1920s76
1930s164
1940s2,660
1950s7,692
1960s16,765
1970s19,018
1980s44,911
1990s50,362
2000s20,129
2010s6,363
2020s2,332

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.

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.