Cassandra Girl
How popular is Cassandra?
#630 girl name in 2025
463 baby girls were named Cassandra in the US in 2025, making it the 630th most popular girl name.
Cassandra popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #630 for girls (▼ 15 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 463 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-25% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #512 in 2015, #655 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1990 (7,054 girls) |
| Highest rank | #49 in 1990 |
| First recorded | 1902 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Cassandra counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Cassandra family of names ranked #433 for girls in 2025, with 692 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Cassandra is most popular
Babies named Cassandra per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Jersey: 0.5 per 1,000 (98 girls)
- California: 0.5 per 1,000 (430 girls)
- Washington: 0.5 per 1,000 (67 girls)
- Arizona: 0.5 per 1,000 (65 girls)
- Utah: 0.4 per 1,000 (37 girls)
Cassandra by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 10 | #1,792 |
| 1910s | 61 | #2,383 |
| 1920s | 76 | #2,766 |
| 1930s | 164 | #1,308 |
| 1940s | 2,660 | #338 |
| 1950s | 7,692 | #273 |
| 1960s | 16,765 | #139 |
| 1970s | 19,016 | #135 |
| 1980s | 44,911 | #54 |
| 1990s | 50,364 | #49 |
| 2000s | 20,128 | #100 |
| 2010s | 6,365 | #329 |
| 2020s | 2,796 | #599 |
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Questions
- Is Cassandra a boy or girl name?
- Cassandra is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Cassandra were girls.
- How popular is the name Cassandra?
- 463 baby girls were named Cassandra in the US in 2025, making it the 630th most popular girl name.
- When was Cassandra most popular?
- Cassandra peaked in 1990, when 7,054 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #49 in 1990.
- How many people are named Cassandra?
- 171,384 babies have been named Cassandra in the US since 1880. We estimate about 163,712 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 37.
- Where is Cassandra most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Cassandra was most common in New Jersey, at 0.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.