Cossandra — girls' name
20 babies named Cossandra in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1968. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
50% of everyone ever named Cossandra was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Cossandra in 1968 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Cossandra
The Social Security Administration has registered 20 babies named Cossandra between 1968 and 1984, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cossandra currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1984. The name reached its historical peak in 1968, when 10 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Cossandra performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 10 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Cossandra shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Cossandra 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 20 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.
Cossandra at a glance
Last recorded 1984Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Cossandra popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1984–1968
- Peak year (1968)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 17 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1984.
20 total births across 17 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1968 with 10 births in a single year.
Cossandra by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 10 births that decade — 50% of Cossandra's all-time total
Cossandra decade highlights
- Peak decade 10 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Cossandra's strongest decade
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 50% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1968–1984 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.