Cassian
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #10,312 · #479 for boys in 2025, 633 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 633 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,893since 1997
Cassian over time
Rank among boys' names. Cassian has never cracked the top 400 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 | — | #479 | 633 | |
| 2024 | — | #617 | 464 | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #529 | 557 |
| 2022 | — | #938 | 244 | |
| 2021 | — | #968 | 230 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,035 | 196 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,354 | 132 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,328 | 136 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #1,378 | 128 |
| 2016 | — | #4,943 | 19 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,890 | 19 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,866 | 19 | |
| 2013 | — | #6,241 | 13 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,390 | 22 | |
| 2011 | — | #7,009 | 11 | |
| 2010 | — | #6,036 | 14 | |
| 2009 | — | #5,334 | 17 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,393 | 13 | |
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| 2006 | — | #8,732 | 8 | |
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| 2004 | — | #8,143 | 8 | |
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| 2002 | — | #10,667 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cassian! It came in at #9,265, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1997–2003, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Cassian is popular in 1997
No state had 5 or more boys named Cassian in 1997, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Cassian
- 138 spots since 2024 (#617 → #479)
- 556 spots since 2020 (#1,035 → #479)
- 4,411 spots since 2015 (#4,890 → #479)
- Biggest jump: 409 spots in 2023 (#938 → #529)
- Biggest drop: 88 spots in 2024 (#529 → #617)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2025 at #479 (633 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2021–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,698 boys born in 2025 were named Cassian (0.04%)
- 80.3% of all boys named Cassian (2,324) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | #9,265 (1997) | #9,265 |
| 2000s | 51 | #5,334 (2009) | #7,854 |
| 2010s | 513 | #1,328 (2018) | #4,244 |
| 2020s | 2,324 | #479 (2025) | #761 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cassian in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 377,028 of them was named Cassian, which outranked 14.3% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,549 names at #9,265; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.