girls:
170.2k births since 1902
#232 (96th percentile)
boys:
376 births since 1959
#4210 (8th percentile)
overall:
170.6k births since 1902
#442 (94th percentile)
The name Cassandra is the #442 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 170,587 recorded births since 1902. This represents the 94.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #232 (96.0% percentile) for all time with 170,211 births since 1902. For boys, it ranks #4,210 (8.1% percentile) for all time with 376 births since 1959.
Cassandra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1902 (1902 for girls and 1959 for boys). Birth data for Cassandra is available in 114 out of the 122 years between 1902 and 2023 (114 years for girls and 40 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 Cassandra has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Cassandra reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 94.4% percentile (ranked #49) with 3,434 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 3,438 births per million (ranked 93.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1992, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Cassandra ranks #533 for girls (43.8% percentile) with 261 births per million, which is 7.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Cassandra reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #705) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cassandra".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Cassandra is pronounced as kuh-SAN-druh, which has 3 syllables.
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