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Kase vs Kassandra

American parents have registered 33,528 Kassandras since 1880, against 4,849 Kases. Kassandra is still ahead, with 197 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kase Kassandra

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 81 years in which either name was published, Kassandra for 73 years and Kase for 8 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kase Kassandra
Total US births 4,84933,528
Most in one year 4332,742
Babies in 2025 192197
Estimated living today 4,80033,000
Median age today 828
Peak year 20181993
Best rank 618th boys120th girls
Rank in 2025 1,115th1,173rd
First recorded 19831945
Girls / boys 7 / 4,84233,512 / 16

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 Kases are over 8. That is 20 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 Kase Kassandra
England and Wales 13181

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: Kase and Kassandra.