first name
CASSANDRA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 141,760 people named Cassandra, 57.2% reported their origin as White, 18.4% as Black and 17.7% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Cassandra peaked in 1990, when 7,073 babies got the name.
At least 171,384 babies have been given the name since 1902. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Cassandra by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #135. The largest share of babies named Cassandra, 47.7%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Cassandra is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Cassandra has been most common in Arizona (1.8×), Nevada (1.7×), and Alaska (1.5×), and least common in Kentucky (0.72×).
168,560 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Cassandra
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Cassandra, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Cassandra ranks #99,304 of 156,621, with 195 people. See Cassandra as a last name
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