Kassandra
Kassandra was given to 197 girls in 2025, #1,177 among girls’ names; 33,528 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 32,900 Americans named Kassandra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 21 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kassandra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kassandra mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kassandra is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, a rare spelling variant (or alternate transliteration) of Cassandra.”
From Ancient Greek Κασσάνδρα (Kassándra).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kassandra?
#1,177 among girls’ names, 2025
Kassandra fell from #756 in 2015 to #1,177 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.21 to 0.12 per 1,000.
2,742 babies in 1993, the peak
Kassandra peaked in 1993, when 2,742 babies were given it (2,731 girls, #120 among girls’ names). The 197 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 197 | #1,177 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 196 | #1,210 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 191 | #1,231 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 192 | #1,251 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 201 | #1,201 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 208 | #1,143 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 244 | #1,053 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 254 | #1,021 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 300 | #896 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 354 | #807 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 373 | #756 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 414 | #685 | 0.23 |
| 2013 | 394 | #710 | 0.22 |
| 2012 | 411 | #687 | 0.23 |
| 2011 | 464 | #624 | 0.26 |
| 2010 | 539 | #546 | 0.30 |
| 2009 | 533 | #574 | 0.29 |
| 2008 | 579 | #531 | 0.31 |
| 2007 | 646 | #500 | 0.34 |
| 2006 | 763 | #417 | 0.40 |
| 2005 | 870 | #360 | 0.47 |
| 2004 | 929 | #344 | 0.51 |
| 2003 | 1,016 | #306 | 0.56 |
| 2002 | 1,161 | #271 | 0.65 |
| 2001 | 1,046 | #303 | 0.58 |
| 2000 | 1,136 | #284 | 0.63 |
| 1999 | 1,202 | #264 | 0.68 |
| 1998 | 1,237 | #248 | 0.70 |
| 1997 | 1,398 | #212 | 0.80 |
| 1996 | 1,436 | #203 | 0.82 |
| 1995 | 1,607 | #183 | 0.91 |
| 1994 | 1,763 | #172 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 2,731 | #120 | 1.5 |
| 1992 | 1,393 | #205 | 0.76 |
| 1991 | 889 | #307 | 0.47 |
| 1990 | 873 | #312 | 0.46 |
| 1989 | 775 | #326 | 0.42 |
| 1988 | 614 | #392 | 0.34 |
| 1987 | 456 | #475 | 0.26 |
| 1986 | 483 | #448 | 0.28 |
| 1985 | 366 | #544 | 0.21 |
| 1984 | 343 | #551 | 0.20 |
| 1983 | 298 | #596 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 325 | #566 | 0.19 |
| 1981 | 190 | #829 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 117 | #1,156 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 108 | #1,206 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 98 | #1,259 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 83 | #1,362 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 69 | #1,508 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,614 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 83 | #1,291 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 83 | #1,259 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 76 | #1,331 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 96 | #1,190 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 109 | #1,090 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 63 | #1,486 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 83 | #1,192 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,963 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,124 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,966 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,269 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 32 | #2,109 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,232 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,787 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,336 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,915 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,806 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,601 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,417 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,668 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,902 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,011 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,195 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,797 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,135 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,500 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,048 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,008 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,700 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,282 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kassandra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kassandra has been given almost only to girls: 16 boys in 81 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kassandra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kassandra, and how old are they?
32,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 33,528 Americans ever recorded as Kassandra. The median Kassandra alive today is 29 years old; half are between 21 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 26,111 people named Kassandra (26,065 women and girls, 46 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 31,905 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 231 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,150 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 14,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,500 |
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 Kassandra born?
The states with the most babies named Kassandra are California, Texas and Florida, with 70% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 50 | #630 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 35 | #849 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,288 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 11 | #829 | 1.1× |
| New York | 8 | #1,591 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 6 | #972 | 1.8× |
| Washington | 6 | #983 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,115 | 0.3× |
| Nevada | 5 | #564 | 1.2× |
Where Kassandra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kassandra is most over-represented in Texas: since 1945 it was given 1.9 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 Kassandra 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 238,675 babies since 1880, Kassandra is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 197 of their 692 babies (28%), again the second most given.
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 Kassandra
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 Kassandra and names like it
- Compare Kassandra and CassandraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKassandra peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kassandra since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Kassandra.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kassandra alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.