Cassandra — #613 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Cassandra

The Social Security Administration has registered 170,543 babies named Cassandra between 1902 and 2024, spanning 123 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cassandra currently holds the #613 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 7,054 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cassandra performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 50,362 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Cassandra shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 21,406 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Cassandra in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cassandra 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 170,543 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.