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Kasidy vs Kassandra

American parents have registered 33,528 Kassandras since 1880, against 612 Kasidys. Kassandra is still ahead, with 197 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kasidy 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 2022, when Kasidy had 10 and Kassandra had 192.

Side by side

  Kasidy Kassandra
Total US births 61233,528
Most in one year 412,742
Babies in 2025 under 5197
Estimated living today 61033,000
Median age today 2228
Peak year 20011993
Best rank 3,316th girls120th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,173rd
First recorded 19811945
Girls / boys 612 / 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 Kasidys are over 22. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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