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Casandra vs Casen

American parents have registered 15,791 Casandras since 1880, against 6,655 Casens. But in 2025 it was Casen that was commoner, 293 babies to 9.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Casandra Casen

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

Of the 85 years in which either name was published, Casandra for 67 years and Casen for 18 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Casandra Casen
Total US births 15,7916,655
Most in one year 642437
Babies in 2025 9293
Estimated living today 15,0006,600
Median age today 369
Peak year 19902014
Best rank 404th girls611th boys
Rank in 2025 10,107th840th
First recorded 19401978
Girls / boys 15,784 / 722 / 6,633

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Casandras alive today are over 36; half the Casens are over 9. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Casandra Casen
England and Wales 3255

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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