Casandra
Casandra was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,257 among girls’ names; 15,791 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,100 Americans named Casandra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 29 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Casandra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Casandra mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Casandra is “a female given name, equivalent to English Cassandra”
/kaˈsandɾa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Casandra?
#10,257 among girls’ names, 2025
Casandra fell from #5,499 in 2015 to #10,257 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 5.6 per million.
642 babies in 1990, the peak
Casandra peaked in 1990, when 642 girls were given it, #405 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,257 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,548 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,719 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,042 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,020 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,284 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,218 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,190 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,395 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,551 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,499 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,858 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,522 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,935 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 84 | #2,241 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 75 | #2,478 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 107 | #1,952 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 130 | #1,713 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 175 | #1,381 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 194 | #1,240 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 243 | #1,005 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 236 | #998 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 307 | #806 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 338 | #724 | 0.19 |
| 2001 | 342 | #717 | 0.19 |
| 2000 | 322 | #720 | 0.18 |
| 1999 | 338 | #673 | 0.19 |
| 1998 | 400 | #599 | 0.23 |
| 1997 | 436 | #544 | 0.25 |
| 1996 | 405 | #572 | 0.23 |
| 1995 | 426 | #553 | 0.24 |
| 1994 | 489 | #506 | 0.27 |
| 1993 | 472 | #517 | 0.26 |
| 1992 | 487 | #498 | 0.26 |
| 1991 | 510 | #478 | 0.27 |
| 1990 | 642 | #405 | 0.34 |
| 1989 | 624 | #396 | 0.34 |
| 1988 | 477 | #477 | 0.27 |
| 1987 | 348 | #570 | 0.20 |
| 1986 | 397 | #520 | 0.23 |
| 1985 | 399 | #508 | 0.23 |
| 1984 | 372 | #521 | 0.22 |
| 1983 | 383 | #506 | 0.23 |
| 1982 | 439 | #475 | 0.26 |
| 1981 | 334 | #557 | 0.20 |
| 1980 | 258 | #676 | 0.16 |
| 1979 | 208 | #771 | 0.13 |
| 1978 | 240 | #668 | 0.16 |
| 1977 | 211 | #727 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 187 | #767 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 208 | #711 | 0.14 |
| 1974 | 232 | #657 | 0.16 |
| 1973 | 230 | #651 | 0.16 |
| 1972 | 232 | #655 | 0.15 |
| 1971 | 263 | #631 | 0.16 |
| 1970 | 250 | #652 | 0.14 |
| 1969 | 235 | #651 | 0.14 |
| 1968 | 222 | #651 | 0.14 |
| 1967 | 159 | #788 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 158 | #783 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 128 | #883 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 106 | #1,052 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 70 | #1,322 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 78 | #1,247 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 67 | #1,361 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 70 | #1,311 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 68 | #1,300 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 72 | #1,252 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 54 | #1,442 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 46 | #1,560 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 39 | #1,642 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 43 | #1,540 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,837 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,615 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 47 | #1,364 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 34 | #1,605 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,336 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 52 | #1,269 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,758 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,679 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,998 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,105 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 30 | #1,532 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,058 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,455 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Casandra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Casandra has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 85 years of records.
Girls and boys named Casandra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Casandra, and how old are they?
15,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 15,791 Americans ever recorded as Casandra. The median Casandra alive today is 37 years old; half are between 29 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 13,691 people named Casandra (13,669 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,187 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 46 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 810 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,180 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 286 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Casandra born?
The states with the most babies named Casandra are California, Texas and New York, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,212 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 1,596 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 821 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 758 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 641 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 522 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 473 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 414 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 346 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 308 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Casandra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Casandra is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1940 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Casandra with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 238,809 babies since 1880, Casandra is the third most given (6.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 692 babies (1.3%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Casandra
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Casandra and names like it
- Compare Casandra and CassandraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCasandra peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Casandra since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Casandra: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Casandra.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Casandra alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.