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Kassandra

About 33,528 American babies have been named Kassandra since 1945, most of them around 1993. In 2025 it ranked 1,173rd. About 33,000 Kassandras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Kassandra boys named Kassandra

By the numbers

Total US births
33,528
Estimated living today
33,000
Median age today
28
Peak year
1993
Best rank
120th
Rank in 2025
1,173rd
First recorded
1945
Girls / boys
33,512 / 16

How old the living Kassandras are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 33,528 babies given the name since 1945, about 33,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 6,000 of them are children and 140 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Ancient Greek

From Ancient Greek Κασσάνδρα.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Kassandra is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kassandra is most concentrated in Arizona (3.3×), Nevada (2.8×), California (2.5×), Texas (2.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1993

The most popular girls’ names the year Kassandra peaked:

All the names of 1993

Kassandra elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Kassandra 4,670 221st
Belgium girls Kassandra 243 373rd
England and Wales girls Kassandra 181 1,685th
Switzerland girls Kassandra 86 613th
Poland girls Kassandra 11 birth registrations 599th
Ireland girls Kassandra 4 718th
Scotland girls Kassandra 3 615th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Kassandra: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Kassandra 35 0.003% 524th
French girls Switzerland Kassandra 49 0.011% 235th
Italian girls Switzerland Kassandra 2 0.003% 161st

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Kassandra: rank by region

In 2015, Kassandra was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Kassandra 499 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Kassandra among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Kassandra 16 42

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Kassandra lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 313 women called Kassandra were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Kassandra 30 0.054 1,433
Ciudad Real Kassandra 8 0.032 1,266
Castellón/Castelló Kassandra 9 0.029 1,762
Cádiz Kassandra 18 0.028 1,253
Palmas, Las Kassandra 16 0.027 2,679
Huelva Kassandra 6 0.022 1,858

Listed in 17 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 35 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Kassandra against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.