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Kassandra vs Kassia

American parents have registered 33,528 Kassandras since 1880, against 876 Kassias. Kassandra is still ahead, with 197 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kassandra Kassia

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 1972, when Kassandra had 76 and Kassia had 15.

Side by side

  Kassandra Kassia
Total US births 33,528876
Most in one year 2,74235
Babies in 2025 19735
Estimated living today 33,000860
Median age today 2824
Peak year 19932025
Best rank 120th girls4,067th girls
Rank in 2025 1,173rd4,067th
First recorded 19451967
Girls / boys 33,512 / 16876 / 0

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 Kassias are over 24. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Kassandra Kassia
France 4,670145
England and Wales 181120

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 Kassia.