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How popular is the name Cassandra?
Births per year, rank history and how many Cassandras are alive today.
Cassandra (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 490th in 2025 with 81 babies given the name. The name peaked in 1996, when 111 babies were given the name, the 319th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1177 in 2014 before climbing back to the 490th place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years. Common short forms of Cassandra include Cassie.
The Cassandra you are most likely to meet is around 31 years old - or else around 2: the name has two living generations. Half of all Cassandras born in England and Wales are between 10 and 33, and there are at least 2,200 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Cassandra - on average, only one in every 144 such rooms contains a Cassandra.
How many babies are named Cassandra each year?
Where does Cassandra rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Cassandra most popular?
Cassandra peaked in 1996, when 111 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Cassandra?
At least 2,200 people named Cassandra born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Cassandra?
Most living Cassandras are between 10 and 33; the most common age is about 31. There is a second cluster around 2.
Is Cassandra becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.