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Kassandra vs Kassian

American parents have registered 33,528 Kassandras since 1880, against 266 Kassians. Kassandra is still ahead, with 197 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kassandra against Kassian, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kassandra Kassian

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

Kassandra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1945 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Kassandra had 191 and Kassian had 49.

Side by side

  Kassandra Kassian
Total US births 33,528266
Most in one year 2,74249
Babies in 2025 19742
Estimated living today 33,000270
Median age today 282
Peak year 19932023
Best rank 120th girls2,660th boys
Rank in 2025 1,173rd2,941st
First recorded 19452017
Girls / boys 33,512 / 160 / 266

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 Kassandras alive today are over 28; half the Kassians are over 2. That is 26 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 Kassandra Kassian
France 4,67020
England and Wales 18136

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: Kassandra and Kassian.