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Kasia vs Kassandra

American parents have registered 33,528 Kassandras since 1880, against 1,725 Kasias. Kassandra is still ahead, with 197 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kasia 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

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 1958, when Kasia had 5 and Kassandra had 18.

Side by side

  Kasia Kassandra
Total US births 1,72533,528
Most in one year 712,742
Babies in 2025 23197
Estimated living today 1,70033,000
Median age today 2428
Peak year 20021993
Best rank 2,288th girls120th girls
Rank in 2025 5,410th1,173rd
First recorded 19581945
Girls / boys 1,725 / 033,512 / 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 Kasias are over 24. That is 4 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 Kasia Kassandra
France 554,670
England and Wales 247181
Switzerland 1586
Poland 811
Scotland 43

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: Kasia and Kassandra.