Meaning not yet researched.
Cassius: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 504 in 2025. Its best rank was #430 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #430 in 1880; #583 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cassius in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#583 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #430.
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Cassius: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 504 boys in 2025. Peak: #430 in 1880 · most boys in one year: 607 (2021).
In 2025, 504 US boys were named Cassius, making it the 583rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 14 places from #569 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 516 boys named Cassius in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #430, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 607, in 2021. For comparison, it was #644 in 2015 and #3,372 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cassius in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 17 babies. In all, 9,766 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,643 babies named Cassius.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,209 US boys were named Cassius; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 607. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,389 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cassius ranked highest in Maine in 2025, at #181 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kassius (1,197 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Casius, Kasius and Kassaius are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Casius (42), Kasius (37), Kassaius (11), Kassious (5).
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 Cassius 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 7 | #181 | — |
| Hawaii | 6 | #181 | — |
| Washington | 28 | #267 | #335 |
| New Mexico | 7 | #275 | #357 |
| Indiana | 22 | #342 | #674 |
| Iowa | 9 | #380 | — |
| Utah | 12 | #386 | #621 |
| Nevada | 7 | #398 | #366 |
| Oregon | 9 | #405 | #345 |
| Virginia | 18 | #438 | #746 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #446 | #614 |
| Tennessee | 17 | #459 | — |
| Kentucky | 10 | #459 | #408 |
| Ohio | 21 | #501 | #601 |
| Minnesota | 10 | #522 | #650 |
| Kansas | 6 | #537 | #602 |
| Colorado | 10 | #545 | #597 |
| California | 56 | #547 | #578 |
| Maryland | 8 | #581 | #588 |
| Missouri | 9 | #602 | #618 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #616 | — |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #633 | #451 |
| New York | 23 | #644 | #672 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #654 | #567 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #671 | #592 |
| Georgia | 14 | #682 | #799 |
| Michigan | 11 | #684 | #638 |
| Alabama | 6 | #694 | — |
| Florida | 22 | #706 | #725 |
| Texas | 39 | #713 | #947 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #719 | #482 |
| Arizona | 8 | #732 | — |
| Illinois | 11 | #763 | #680 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #796 | #834 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 504 | #583 |
| 2024 | — | — | 516 | #569 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,656 | 509 | #576 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,509 | 541 | #549 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,733 | 607 | #487 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,591 | 602 | #488 |
| 2019 | — | — | 554 | #514 |
| 2018 | — | — | 460 | #595 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,873 | 467 | #582 |
| 2016 | — | — | 449 | #600 |
| 2015 | — | — | 406 | #644 |
| 2014 | — | — | 346 | #704 |
| 2013 | — | — | 300 | #757 |
| 2012 | — | — | 218 | #934 |
| 2011 | — | — | 240 | #873 |
| 2010 | — | — | 195 | #1,006 |
| 2009 | — | — | 199 | #993 |
| 2008 | — | — | 213 | #946 |
| 2007 | — | — | 164 | #1,115 |
| 2006 | — | — | 169 | #1,059 |
| 2005 | — | — | 102 | #1,443 |
| 2004 | — | — | 95 | #1,457 |
| 2003 | — | — | 79 | #1,597 |
| 2002 | — | — | 85 | #1,484 |
| 2001 | — | — | 59 | #1,875 |
| 2000 | — | — | 60 | #1,801 |
| 1999 | — | — | 47 | #2,031 |
| 1998 | — | — | 52 | #1,876 |
| 1997 | — | — | 45 | #1,994 |
| 1996 | — | — | 42 | #2,047 |
| 1995 | — | — | 34 | #2,302 |
| 1994 | — | — | 26 | #2,778 |
| 1993 | — | — | 42 | #1,942 |
| 1992 | — | — | 44 | #1,849 |
| 1991 | — | — | 45 | #1,774 |
| 1990 | — | — | 42 | #1,842 |
| 1989 | — | — | 25 | #2,549 |
| 1988 | — | — | 27 | #2,258 |
| 1987 | — | — | 23 | #2,406 |
| 1986 | — | — | 27 | #2,106 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #2,963 |
| 1984 | — | — | 24 | #2,170 |
| 1983 | — | — | 19 | #2,504 |
| 1982 | — | — | 17 | #2,721 |
| 1981 | — | — | 22 | #2,279 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,650 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,790 |
| 1978 | — | — | 18 | #2,489 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,066 |
| 1976 | — | — | 20 | #2,253 |
| 1975 | — | — | 11 | #3,275 |
| 1974 | — | — | 17 | #2,371 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #2,874 |
| 1972 | — | — | 19 | #2,091 |
| 1971 | — | — | 36 | #1,418 |
| 1970 | — | — | 27 | #1,661 |
| 1969 | — | — | 22 | #1,772 |
| 1968 | — | — | 19 | #1,848 |
| 1967 | — | — | 43 | #1,136 |
| 1966 | — | — | 38 | #1,218 |
| 1965 | — | — | 42 | #1,167 |
| 1964 | — | — | 78 | #861 |
| 1963 | — | — | 27 | #1,514 |
| 1962 | — | — | 15 | #2,127 |
| 1961 | — | — | 17 | #2,003 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,128 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #2,852 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,588 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,002 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #3,794 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,372 |
| 1948 | — | — | 13 | #2,130 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,595 |
| 1944 | — | — | 9 | #2,493 |
| 1943 | — | — | 10 | #2,427 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #2,971 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #2,911 |
| 1940 | — | — | 8 | #2,699 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,167 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,597 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,316 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #3,856 |
| 1931 | — | — | 13 | #2,113 |
| 1930 | — | — | 12 | #2,319 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,624 |
| 1928 | — | — | 10 | #2,690 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,203 |
| 1926 | — | — | 13 | #2,319 |
| 1925 | — | — | 10 | #2,779 |
| 1924 | — | — | 9 | #3,057 |
| 1923 | — | — | 16 | #2,034 |
| 1922 | — | — | 10 | #2,837 |
| 1921 | — | — | 10 | #2,836 |
| 1920 | — | — | 16 | #2,062 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,155 |
| 1918 | — | — | 16 | #2,011 |
| 1917 | — | — | 17 | #1,827 |
| 1916 | — | — | 19 | #1,651 |
| 1915 | — | — | 10 | #2,480 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,303 |
| 1913 | — | — | 11 | #1,693 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,631 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,411 |
| 1895 | — | — | 6 | #998 |
| 1893 | — | — | 8 | #779 |
| 1892 | — | — | 8 | #810 |
| 1891 | — | — | 6 | #862 |
| 1890 | — | — | 7 | #820 |
| 1889 | — | — | 6 | #892 |
| 1888 | — | — | 10 | #657 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #952 |
| 1885 | — | — | 7 | #776 |
| 1884 | — | — | 6 | #872 |
| 1883 | — | — | 10 | #605 |
| 1882 | — | — | 12 | #546 |
| 1881 | — | — | 9 | #606 |
| 1880 | — | — | 17 | #430 |
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).