Casandra
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · Last seen for boys in 1984 at #4,973
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1989 · 624 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,784since 1940
Casandra over time
Rank among girls' names. Casandra has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | — | |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | — | |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | — | |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 | — | |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | — | |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | — | |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,531 | 31 | — | |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,848 | 39 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,513 | 44 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,915 | 39 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,238 | 84 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,476 | 75 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,947 | 107 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,713 | 130 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,381 | 175 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,240 | 194 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,004 | 243 | — | |
| 2004 | #997 | 236 | — | |
| 2003 | #806 | 307 | — | |
| 2002 | #724 | 338 | — | |
| 2001 | #717 | 342 | — | |
| 2000 | #718 | 322 | — | |
| 1999 | #674 | 338 | — | |
| 1998 | #599 | 400 | — | |
| 1997 | #544 | 436 | — | |
| 1996 | #572 | 405 | — | |
| 1995 | #552 | 426 | — | |
| 1994 | #506 | 489 | — | |
| 1993 | #517 | 472 | — | |
| 1992 | #498 | 487 | — | |
| 1991 | #478 | 510 | — | |
| 1990 | #404 | 642 | — | |
| 1989 | #396 | 624 | — | |
| 1988 | #477 | 477 | — | |
| 1987 | #570 | 348 | — | |
| 1986 | #520 | 397 | — | |
| 1985 | #507 | 399 | — | |
| 1984 | #521 | 372 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #506 | 383 | — | |
| 1982 | #475 | 439 | — | |
| 1981 | #557 | 334 | — | |
| 1980 | #676 | 258 | — | |
| 1979 | #771 | 208 | — | |
| 1978 | #667 | 240 | — | |
| 1977 | #727 | 211 | — | |
| 1976 | #766 | 187 | — | |
| 1975 | #711 | 208 | — | |
| 1974 | #657 | 232 | — | |
| 1973 | #651 | 230 | — | |
| 1972 | #655 | 232 | — | |
| 1971 | #631 | 263 | — | |
| 1970 | #651 | 250 | — | |
| 1969 | #651 | 235 | — | |
| 1968 | #651 | 222 | — | |
| 1967 | #788 | 159 | — | |
| 1966 | #783 | 158 | — | |
| 1965 | #883 | 128 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,051 | 106 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,319 | 70 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,247 | 78 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,360 | 67 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,312 | 70 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,299 | 68 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,253 | 72 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,442 | 54 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,560 | 46 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,641 | 39 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,540 | 43 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,834 | 30 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,611 | 36 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,362 | 47 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,602 | 34 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,335 | 47 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,267 | 52 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,752 | 30 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,678 | 28 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,993 | 18 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,096 | 17 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,527 | 30 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,046 | 18 | — | |
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| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Casandra! It came in at #4,349, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1940–1941, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Casandra is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Mexico#237 · 1 in 920
- Idaho#237 · 1 in 926
- West Virginia#246 · 1 in 1,223
- Oklahoma#335 · 1 in 1,682
- California#406 · 1 in 2,274
Best ever in a state: #149 in Rhode Island, 1983.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #237 | 6 | 1 in 926 |
| New Mexico | #237 | 9 | 1 in 920 |
| West Virginia | #246 | 6 | 1 in 1,223 |
| Oklahoma | #335 | 10 | 1 in 1,682 |
| California | #406 | 98 | 1 in 2,274 |
| Massachusetts | #406 | 11 | 1 in 2,891 |
| Arizona | #428 | 13 | 1 in 2,160 |
| Washington | #432 | 12 | 1 in 2,386 |
| Oregon | #439 | 7 | 1 in 2,306 |
| Iowa | #451 | 5 | 1 in 2,745 |
| Texas | #460 | 51 | 1 in 2,743 |
| Indiana | #466 | 11 | 1 in 2,981 |
| Kentucky | #472 | 6 | 1 in 3,293 |
| Wisconsin | #482 | 8 | 1 in 3,129 |
| Colorado | #520 | 7 | 1 in 2,993 |
| Illinois | #532 | 21 | 1 in 3,329 |
| Michigan | #543 | 14 | 1 in 3,712 |
| Pennsylvania | #583 | 13 | 1 in 4,482 |
| New Jersey | #590 | 10 | 1 in 4,176 |
| New York | #598 | 25 | 1 in 4,040 |
| Florida | #624 | 17 | 1 in 4,315 |
| Georgia | #671 | 9 | 1 in 4,752 |
| Ohio | #694 | 11 | 1 in 5,622 |
| Missouri | #759 | 5 | 1 in 5,904 |
| North Carolina | #965 | 5 | 1 in 8,011 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Casandra
- 1,664 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #10,107)
- 2,895 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #10,107)
- 4,649 spots since 2015 (#5,458 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 168 spots in 1965 (#1,051 → #883)
- Biggest drop: 191 spots in 2004 (#806 → #997)
- Debuted 1940
- Peaked 1989 at #396 (624 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 40 yrs · run 1965–2004
- Highest: 1 in 2,954 girls born in 1989 were named Casandra (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 29.2% of all girls named Casandra (4,605) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 245 | #1,267 (1948) | #2,005 |
| 1950s | 469 | #1,253 (1958) | #1,514 |
| 1960s | 1,293 | #651 (1969) | #1,005 |
| 1970s | 2,261 | #631 (1971) | #689 |
| 1980s | 4,031 | #396 (1989) | #521 |
| 1990s | 4,605 | #404 (1990) | #534 |
| 2000s | 2,394 | #717 (2001) | #1,125 |
| 2010s | 404 | #2,238 (2011) | #4,265 |
| 2020s | 82 | #6,967 (2021) | #7,892 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Casandra in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 3,992 of them was named Casandra, which outranked 96.6% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.