How popular is “Cassandra” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cassandra” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cassandra” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Cassandra” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Cassandra” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Cassandra” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Cassandra” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cassandra” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1902	5	0.000012929	5		100%
1906	5	0.00001167	5		100%
1912	6	0.000006072	6		100%
1913	5	0.000004397	5		100%
1914	9	0.000006354	9		100%
1915	12	0.000006549	12		100%
1916	7	0.000003619	7		100%
1917	7	0.000003488	7		100%
1918	8	0.000003685	8		100%
1919	7	0.000003317	7		100%
1920	11	0.000004862	11		100%
1921	6	0.00000257	6		100%
1922	7	0.000003058	7		100%
1923	5	0.000002172	5		100%
1924	6	0.000002519	6		100%
1925	8	0.000003429	8		100%
1926	7	0.000003049	7		100%
1927	9	0.00000388	9		100%
1928	11	0.000004865	11		100%
1929	6	0.000002737	6		100%
1930	12	0.000005397	12		100%
1931	10	0.000004752	10		100%
1932	10	0.000004736	10		100%
1933	8	0.000004001	8		100%
1934	8	0.000003852	8		100%
1935	16	0.000007656	16		100%
1936	19	0.000009145	19		100%
1937	22	0.000010325	22		100%
1938	27	0.000012203	27		100%
1939	32	0.000014523	32		100%
1940	49	0.00002128	49		100%
1941	42	0.000017238	42		100%
1942	185	0.00006772	185		100%
1943	241	0.000085384	241		100%
1944	264	0.000098138	264		100%
1945	238	0.000089713	238		100%
1946	289	0.000090445	289		100%
1947	378	0.000104932	378		100%
1948	441	0.000127733	441		100%
1949	533	0.000152951	533		100%
1950	639	0.000182396	639		100%
1951	689	0.000187038	689		100%
1952	624	0.000164297	624		100%
1953	596	0.000154659	596		100%
1954	634	0.000159268	634		100%
1955	717	0.000178577	717		100%
1956	805	0.000195244	805		100%
1957	1003	0.000238688	1003		100%
1958	939	0.000227146	939		100%
1959	1052	0.000253007	1046	6	99%
1960	1284	0.000309113	1279	5	99%
1961	1458	0.000351978	1450	8	99%
1962	1539	0.000381377	1533	6	99%
1963	1649	0.000416603	1649		100%
1964	1597	0.000410793	1588	9	99%
1965	1570	0.00043305	1562	8	99%
1966	1601	0.000460633	1595	6	99%
1967	1651	0.000486318	1644	7	99%
1968	2308	0.000683161	2303	5	100%
1969	2169	0.000624115	2162	7	99%
1970	2607	0.000722859	2601	6	100%
1971	2383	0.000694275	2377	6	99%
1972	2134	0.00067897	2126	8	99%
1973	1816	0.000601945	1816		100%
1974	1737	0.000571382	1727	10	99%
1975	1587	0.000525602	1587		100%
1976	1355	0.000446561	1355		100%
1977	1677	0.000527941	1672	5	99%
1978	1822	0.000574063	1812	10	99%
1979	1958	0.000588518	1945	13	99%
1980	2116	0.000614312	2109	7	99%
1981	2866	0.000828473	2855	11	99%
1982	4680	0.001334108	4664	16	99%
1983	4016	0.001159575	4005	11	99%
1984	4601	0.001318809	4583	18	99%
1985	4740	0.001328062	4727	13	99%
1986	5002	0.00140621	4989	13	99%
1987	4565	0.001266081	4555	10	100%
1988	5752	0.00155668	5726	26	99%
1989	6719	0.001747716	6698	21	99%
1990	7073	0.00178951	7054	19	99%
1991	6418	0.001647641	6408	10	100%
1992	6326	0.00164685	6312	14	100%
1993	5430	0.001440212	5420	10	100%
1994	5067	0.001362957	5061	6	100%
1995	4457	0.001217043	4451	6	100%
1996	4024	0.001103314	4017	7	100%
1997	4103	0.001131628	4097	6	100%
1998	3819	0.001038278	3813	6	100%
1999	3729	0.001009511	3729		100%
2000	3305	0.000874361	3305		100%
2001	2835	0.000757335	2835		100%
2002	2737	0.000732153	2732	5	100%
2003	2339	0.000615151	2334	5	100%
2004	1979	0.000517938	1973	6	99%
2005	1872	0.000486886	1867	5	99%
2006	1559	0.000394066	1559		100%
2007	1327	0.000331942	1327		100%
2008	1184	0.000301221	1184		100%
2009	1013	0.000265171	1013		100%
2010	979	0.0002649	979		100%
2011	779	0.00021297	779		100%
2012	743	0.000203152	743		100%
2013	663	0.00018186	663		100%
2014	602	0.000162423	602		100%
2015	616	0.000166445	616		100%
2016	544	0.000148281	544		100%
2017	499	0.000139534	499		100%
2018	446	0.000126852	446		100%
2019	492	0.000141749	492		100%
2020	440	0.000131714	440		100%
2021	497	0.000146696	497		100%
2022	453	0.000133899	453		100%
2023	457	0.000138017	457		100%
2024	485	0.000145711	485		100%

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