Meaning not yet researched.
Cassandra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 463 in 2025. Its best rank was #49 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #49 in 1990; #631 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cassandra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#631 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #49.
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Cassandra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 463 girls in 2025. Peak: #49 in 1990 · most girls in one year: 7,054 (1990).
In 2025, 463 US girls were named Cassandra, making it the 631st most common girls’ name of the year, down 16 places from #615 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 486 girls named Cassandra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #49, reached in 1990. That year also had the most girls given the name: 7,054. For comparison, it was #512 in 2015 and #307 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cassandra in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1902 with 5 babies. In all, 171,384 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 50,448 babies named Cassandra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,778 US girls were named Cassandra; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 544. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,471 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cassandra ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #352 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kassandra (33,528 babies since 1880), Casandra (15,791 babies since 1880), Kasandra (9,468 babies since 1880) and Cassondra (4,310 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Casondra, Casaundra and Kassaundra are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Cassie, Sandra and Sandy.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Casondra (1,061), Casaundra (772), Kassaundra (400), Cassundra (98), Cazandra (54), Casundra (30), Cassendra (7).
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.
Cassandra is listed as a nickname for Sandra.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 23 | #352 | #289 |
| California | 87 | #380 | #326 |
| Washington | 17 | #417 | #435 |
| Utah | 9 | #450 | #634 |
| Colorado | 11 | #506 | #626 |
| Illinois | 19 | #523 | #393 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #531 | #360 |
| Nevada | 5 | #537 | #233 |
| Arizona | 12 | #551 | #502 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #554 | #788 |
| Michigan | 14 | #561 | #676 |
| Missouri | 10 | #562 | — |
| Ohio | 18 | #568 | #704 |
| Oregon | 6 | #568 | #477 |
| Kansas | 5 | #601 | #543 |
| Virginia | 12 | #617 | #521 |
| New York | 26 | #636 | #359 |
| Texas | 48 | #641 | #573 |
| Indiana | 8 | #739 | #589 |
| Maryland | 6 | #748 | #501 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #769 | #412 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #787 | #832 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #801 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #815 | #766 |
| Florida | 18 | #874 | #572 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #912 | #759 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,102 | #984 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 463 | #631 | — | — |
| 2024 | 486 | #615 | — | — |
| 2023 | 457 | #641 | — | — |
| 2022 | 453 | #652 | — | — |
| 2021 | 497 | #601 | — | — |
| 2020 | 440 | #655 | — | — |
| 2019 | 493 | #612 | — | — |
| 2018 | 446 | #663 | — | — |
| 2017 | 499 | #606 | — | — |
| 2016 | 544 | #571 | — | — |
| 2015 | 616 | #512 | — | — |
| 2014 | 602 | #514 | — | — |
| 2013 | 663 | #464 | — | — |
| 2012 | 743 | #423 | — | — |
| 2011 | 779 | #405 | — | — |
| 2010 | 980 | #329 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,012 | #326 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,184 | #284 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,327 | #260 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,559 | #219 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,867 | #185 | 5 | #11,727 |
| 2004 | 1,973 | #173 | 6 | #10,161 |
| 2003 | 2,334 | #140 | 5 | #11,145 |
| 2002 | 2,732 | #126 | 5 | #10,924 |
| 2001 | 2,835 | #122 | — | — |
| 2000 | 3,305 | #100 | — | — |
| 1999 | 3,729 | #87 | — | — |
| 1998 | 3,813 | #85 | 6 | #8,633 |
| 1997 | 4,098 | #81 | 6 | #8,286 |
| 1996 | 4,018 | #89 | 7 | #7,248 |
| 1995 | 4,451 | #78 | 6 | #7,947 |
| 1994 | 5,061 | #66 | 6 | #7,920 |
| 1993 | 5,420 | #66 | 10 | #5,408 |
| 1992 | 6,312 | #52 | 14 | #4,135 |
| 1991 | 6,408 | #54 | 10 | #5,146 |
| 1990 | 7,054 | #49 | 19 | #3,186 |
| 1989 | 6,698 | #54 | 21 | #2,920 |
| 1988 | 5,727 | #59 | 26 | #2,314 |
| 1987 | 4,555 | #68 | 10 | #4,289 |
| 1986 | 4,989 | #60 | 13 | #3,469 |
| 1985 | 4,726 | #62 | 13 | #3,436 |
| 1984 | 4,583 | #63 | 18 | #2,625 |
| 1983 | 4,006 | #70 | 11 | #3,654 |
| 1982 | 4,663 | #62 | 16 | #2,854 |
| 1981 | 2,855 | #104 | 11 | #3,641 |
| 1980 | 2,109 | #138 | 7 | #5,009 |
| 1979 | 1,945 | #146 | 13 | #3,195 |
| 1978 | 1,812 | #152 | 10 | #3,640 |
| 1977 | 1,672 | #160 | 5 | #5,969 |
| 1976 | 1,355 | #188 | — | — |
| 1975 | 1,587 | #168 | — | — |
| 1974 | 1,726 | #159 | 10 | #3,356 |
| 1973 | 1,815 | #153 | — | — |
| 1972 | 2,126 | #139 | 8 | #3,671 |
| 1971 | 2,377 | #136 | 6 | #4,459 |
| 1970 | 2,601 | #135 | 6 | #4,308 |
| 1969 | 2,162 | #151 | 7 | #3,647 |
| 1968 | 2,303 | #139 | 5 | #4,215 |
| 1967 | 1,644 | #191 | 7 | #3,283 |
| 1966 | 1,596 | #199 | 6 | #3,581 |
| 1965 | 1,561 | #210 | 8 | #3,017 |
| 1964 | 1,588 | #217 | 9 | #2,890 |
| 1963 | 1,648 | #211 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,533 | #216 | 6 | #3,688 |
| 1961 | 1,451 | #228 | 8 | #3,131 |
| 1960 | 1,279 | #244 | 5 | #4,117 |
| 1959 | 1,046 | #273 | 6 | #3,664 |
| 1958 | 939 | #293 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,003 | #278 | — | — |
| 1956 | 805 | #312 | — | — |
| 1955 | 717 | #320 | — | — |
| 1954 | 634 | #337 | — | — |
| 1953 | 596 | #340 | — | — |
| 1952 | 624 | #327 | — | — |
| 1951 | 689 | #299 | — | — |
| 1950 | 639 | #307 | — | — |
| 1949 | 533 | #338 | — | — |
| 1948 | 441 | #377 | — | — |
| 1947 | 378 | #414 | — | — |
| 1946 | 289 | #458 | — | — |
| 1945 | 238 | #467 | — | — |
| 1944 | 264 | #445 | — | — |
| 1943 | 241 | #475 | — | — |
| 1942 | 185 | #545 | — | — |
| 1941 | 42 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 1940 | 49 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1939 | 32 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1938 | 27 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,641 | — | — |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,016 | — | — |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,200 | — | — |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,148 | — | — |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,853 | — | — |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,791 | — | — |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,141 | — | — |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,793 | — | — |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,324 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,938 | — | — |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,714 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,545 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,074 | — | — |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,073 | — | — |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,565 | — | — |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,927 | — | — |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,890 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,777 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,598 | — | — |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,411 | — | — |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,460 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,259 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,682 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,997 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,830 | — | — |
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).