girls:
15.8k births since 1940
#1203 (79th percentile)
boys:
7 births since 1984
#4579 (0th percentile)
overall:
15.8k births since 1940
#2075 (73rd percentile)
The name Casandra is the #2,075 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,770 recorded births since 1940. This represents the 73.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,203 (79.0% percentile) for all time with 15,763 births since 1940. For boys, it ranks #4,579 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 1984.
Casandra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1940 (1940 for girls and 1984 for boys). Birth data for Casandra is available in 83 out of the 84 years between 1940 and 2023 (83 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Casandra has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Casandra reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 56.7% percentile (ranked #358) with 313 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 313 births per million (ranked 56.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1992, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Casandra ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 2.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Casandra reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #686) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1984.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Casandra".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Casandra. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.1% confident that Casandra is pronounced as kuh-SAN-druh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-ZAN-druh, at 11.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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