Cass

Cass is the 4,659th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,379 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 40,500.

By the numbers

People: 7,379
Rank: 4,659th
How common: 1 in 40,500
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a matronymic

As an English surname, from a pet form of Cassandra.

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cass described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.6%
Black, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Cass

Lewis Cass (1782–1866)American politician
Big Cass (born 1986)American professional wrestler and actor
Peggy Cass (1924–1999)American actress, comedian, game show panelist, and announcer

People named Cass with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cass

Also a first name

Cass has been given to 1,993 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1989. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.