Meaning not yet researched.
Cassian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 633 in 2025. Its best rank was #479 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Cassian in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#479 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Cassian: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 633 boys in 2025. Peak: #479 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 633 (2025).
In 2025, 633 US boys were named Cassian, making it the 479th most common boys’ name of the year, up 138 places from #617 in 2024. That is 169 more than the 464 boys named Cassian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #479, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 633. For comparison, it was #4,915 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cassian in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 5 babies. In all, 2,907 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,333 babies named Cassian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,739 US boys were named Cassian; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 633. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,698 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cassian ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #168 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kassian are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kassian (266).
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 Cassian in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 5 | #168 | — |
| Nevada | 12 | #246 | — |
| California | 123 | #301 | — |
| Washington | 22 | #340 | — |
| Wisconsin | 16 | #343 | — |
| Utah | 12 | #385 | — |
| Nebraska | 6 | #386 | — |
| Oregon | 9 | #404 | — |
| Michigan | 21 | #410 | — |
| Arizona | 18 | #413 | — |
| Maryland | 12 | #414 | — |
| Minnesota | 13 | #426 | — |
| Kansas | 8 | #434 | — |
| Virginia | 18 | #437 | — |
| Missouri | 14 | #440 | — |
| Colorado | 13 | #444 | — |
| Connecticut | 6 | #451 | — |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #478 | — |
| Illinois | 21 | #489 | — |
| New Jersey | 15 | #492 | — |
| North Carolina | 20 | #499 | — |
| Florida | 34 | #517 | — |
| Ohio | 18 | #560 | — |
| Texas | 54 | #579 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #581 | — |
| New York | 24 | #623 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #630 | — |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #633 | — |
| Kentucky | 6 | #638 | — |
| Tennessee | 11 | #644 | — |
| South Carolina | 6 | #679 | — |
| Georgia | 14 | #681 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #786 | — |
| Louisiana | 5 | #795 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 633 | #479 |
| 2024 | — | — | 464 | #617 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,484 | 557 | #529 |
| 2022 | — | — | 244 | #938 |
| 2021 | — | — | 230 | #969 |
| 2020 | — | — | 196 | #1,036 |
| 2019 | — | — | 132 | #1,355 |
| 2018 | — | — | 136 | #1,328 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,365 | 128 | #1,379 |
| 2016 | — | — | 19 | #4,979 |
| 2015 | — | — | 19 | #4,915 |
| 2014 | — | — | 19 | #4,908 |
| 2013 | — | — | 13 | #6,305 |
| 2012 | — | — | 22 | #4,416 |
| 2011 | — | — | 11 | #7,087 |
| 2010 | — | — | 14 | #6,091 |
| 2009 | — | — | 17 | #5,362 |
| 2008 | — | — | 13 | #6,455 |
| 2006 | — | — | 8 | #8,855 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,256 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #10,925 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #9,482 |
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).