girls:
29 births since 2017
#5687 (0th percentile)
boys:
8.7k births since 1880
#1268 (72nd percentile)
overall:
8.7k births since 1880
#2896 (63rd percentile)
The name Cassius is the #2,896 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,737 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 62.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,268 (72.3% percentile) for all time with 8,708 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,687 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 29 births since 2017.
Cassius has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2017 for girls). Birth data for Cassius is available in 115 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (115 years for boys and 5 years for girls). 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 Cassius has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cassius reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 52.2% percentile (ranked #445) with 324 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 325 births per million (ranked 51.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1996, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Cassius ranks #495 for boys (45.7% percentile) with 276 births per million, which is 85.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Cassius reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #947) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Cassius ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 73.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cassius".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Cassius. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.8% confident that Cassius is pronounced as KA-shuhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KA-see-uhs, at 43.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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