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Casandra vs Casara

American parents have registered 15,791 Casandras since 1880, against 118 Casaras. Casandra is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Casandra against Casara, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Casandra Casara

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Casandra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1940 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1988, when Casandra had 477 and Casara had 34.

Side by side

  Casandra Casara
Total US births 15,791118
Most in one year 64234
Babies in 2025 9under 5
Estimated living today 15,000120
Median age today 3636
Peak year 19901988
Best rank 404th girls2,987th girls
Rank in 2025 10,107thunranked
First recorded 19401987
Girls / boys 15,784 / 7118 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Casandra and Casara.