Cass — #5228 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cass

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,841 babies named Cass between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cass currently holds the #5228 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 43 babies received it in a single year. Cass is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 133 additional births since 1949.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cass performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 242 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Cass shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 32 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Cass in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cass in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,841 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.