Meaning not yet researched.
Casandra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #396 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #396 in 1989; #10,261 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Casandra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,261 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #396.
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Casandra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #396 in 1989 · most girls in one year: 642 (1990).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Casandra, making it the 10,261st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,708 places from #8,553 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 12 girls named Casandra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #396, reached in 1989. The most girls given the name in a single year was 642, in 1990. For comparison, it was #5,501 in 2015 and #1,606 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Casandra in 85 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1940 with 5 babies. In all, 15,791 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,605 babies named Casandra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 181 US girls were named Casandra; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Cassandra (171,384 babies since 1880), Kasandra (9,468 babies since 1880), Andra (8,164 babies since 1880) and Kassandra (33,528 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Casandra in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,261 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,553 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,724 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,047 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,025 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,288 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,222 | — | — |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,194 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,397 | — | — |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,552 | — | — |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,501 | — | — |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,860 | — | — |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,524 | — | — |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,936 | — | — |
| 2011 | 84 | #2,241 | — | — |
| 2010 | 75 | #2,478 | — | — |
| 2009 | 107 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 2008 | 130 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 2007 | 175 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 2006 | 194 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 2005 | 243 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 2004 | 236 | #998 | — | — |
| 2003 | 307 | #806 | — | — |
| 2002 | 338 | #724 | — | — |
| 2001 | 342 | #717 | — | — |
| 2000 | 322 | #720 | — | — |
| 1999 | 338 | #674 | — | — |
| 1998 | 400 | #599 | — | — |
| 1997 | 436 | #544 | — | — |
| 1996 | 405 | #572 | — | — |
| 1995 | 426 | #553 | — | — |
| 1994 | 489 | #506 | — | — |
| 1993 | 472 | #517 | — | — |
| 1992 | 487 | #498 | — | — |
| 1991 | 510 | #478 | — | — |
| 1990 | 642 | #405 | — | — |
| 1989 | 624 | #396 | — | — |
| 1988 | 477 | #477 | — | — |
| 1987 | 348 | #570 | — | — |
| 1986 | 397 | #520 | — | — |
| 1985 | 399 | #508 | — | — |
| 1984 | 372 | #521 | 7 | #5,049 |
| 1983 | 383 | #506 | — | — |
| 1982 | 439 | #475 | — | — |
| 1981 | 334 | #557 | — | — |
| 1980 | 258 | #676 | — | — |
| 1979 | 208 | #771 | — | — |
| 1978 | 240 | #668 | — | — |
| 1977 | 211 | #727 | — | — |
| 1976 | 187 | #767 | — | — |
| 1975 | 208 | #711 | — | — |
| 1974 | 232 | #657 | — | — |
| 1973 | 230 | #651 | — | — |
| 1972 | 232 | #655 | — | — |
| 1971 | 263 | #631 | — | — |
| 1970 | 250 | #652 | — | — |
| 1969 | 235 | #651 | — | — |
| 1968 | 222 | #651 | — | — |
| 1967 | 159 | #788 | — | — |
| 1966 | 158 | #783 | — | — |
| 1965 | 128 | #883 | — | — |
| 1964 | 106 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1963 | 70 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1962 | 78 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 1961 | 67 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1960 | 70 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 1959 | 68 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1958 | 72 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1957 | 54 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1956 | 46 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 1955 | 39 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1954 | 43 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1951 | 47 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1950 | 34 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1948 | 52 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 1943 | 30 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,457 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).