Cassius
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #582 for boys in 2025, 504 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1880 · 17 births
- Debut · boys
- 17 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,736since 1880
Cassius over time
Rank among boys' names. Cassius has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #582 | 504 | |
| 2024 | — | #569 | 516 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #575 | 509 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #548 | 541 |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #487 | 607 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #488 | 602 |
| 2019 | — | #514 | 554 | |
| 2018 | — | #594 | 460 | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #582 | 467 |
| 2016 | — | #600 | 449 | |
| 2015 | — | #644 | 406 | |
| 2014 | — | #704 | 346 | |
| 2013 | — | #757 | 300 | |
| 2012 | — | #933 | 218 | |
| 2011 | — | #873 | 240 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,005 | 195 | |
| 2009 | — | #991 | 199 | |
| 2008 | — | #946 | 213 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,115 | 164 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,058 | 169 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,442 | 102 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,456 | 95 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,591 | 79 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,483 | 85 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,871 | 59 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,799 | 60 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,023 | 47 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,871 | 52 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,991 | 45 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,047 | 42 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,299 | 34 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,766 | 26 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,933 | 42 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,844 | 44 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,768 | 45 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,840 | 42 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,545 | 25 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,255 | 27 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,400 | 23 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,096 | 27 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,942 | 16 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,159 | 24 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,493 | 19 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,709 | 17 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,270 | 22 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,615 | 11 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,777 | 16 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,473 | 18 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,037 | 13 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,245 | 20 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,246 | 11 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,358 | 17 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,857 | 12 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,080 | 19 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,415 | 36 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,658 | 27 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,767 | 22 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,836 | 19 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,132 | 43 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,216 | 38 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,163 | 42 | |
| 1964 | — | #860 | 78 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,513 | 27 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,117 | 15 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,997 | 17 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,821 | 9 | |
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | #3,535 | 6 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,964 | 8 | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | #2,115 | 13 | |
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | #2,467 | 9 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,405 | 10 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,940 | 7 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,671 | 8 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | #3,252 | 6 | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,101 | 13 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,293 | 12 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,589 | 10 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,659 | 10 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,151 | 8 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,302 | 13 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,755 | 10 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,023 | 9 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,020 | 16 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,801 | 10 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,804 | 10 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,052 | 16 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,115 | 8 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,998 | 16 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,815 | 17 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,646 | 19 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,458 | 10 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,271 | 9 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,676 | 11 | |
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | #1,589 | 5 | |
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | #1,373 | 5 | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
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| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | #978 | 6 | |
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | #768 | 8 | |
| 1892 | — | #792 | 8 | |
| 1891 | — | #841 | 6 | |
| 1890 | — | #814 | 7 | |
| 1889 | — | #878 | 6 | |
| 1888 | — | #648 | 10 | |
| 1887 | — | #921 | 5 | |
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | #765 | 7 | |
| 1884 | — | #848 | 6 | |
| 1883 | — | #597 | 10 | |
| 1882 | — | #540 | 12 | |
| 1881 | — | #595 | 9 | |
| 1880 | — | #425 | 17 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Cassius was already there! It came in at #425, and was given to 17 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1886–1887, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Cassius
- 13 spots since 2024 (#569 → #582)
- 94 spots since 2020 (#488 → #582)
- 62 spots since 2015 (#644 → #582)
- Biggest jump: 653 spots in 1964 (#1,513 → #860)
- Biggest drop: 303 spots in 1965 (#860 → #1,163)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #425 (17 births)
- Births halved by 1884, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 2011–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,867 boys born in 2020 were named Cassius (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,389 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #425 in 1880, was only 1 in 6,499 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 37.3% of all boys named Cassius (3,635) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 82 | #425 (1880) | #691 |
| 1890s | 35 | #768 (1893) | #839 |
| 1900s | 5 | #1,373 (1908) | #1,373 |
| 1910s | 95 | #1,589 (1910) | #2,071 |
| 1920s | 112 | #2,020 (1923) | #2,616 |
| 1930s | 47 | #2,101 (1931) | #3,012 |
| 1940s | 59 | #2,115 (1948) | #2,714 |
| 1950s | 34 | #2,821 (1959) | #3,273 |
| 1960s | 309 | #860 (1964) | #1,668 |
| 1970s | 189 | #1,415 (1971) | #2,415 |
| 1980s | 211 | #2,096 (1986) | #2,548 |
| 1990s | 419 | #1,768 (1991) | #2,038 |
| 2000s | 1,225 | #946 (2008) | #1,375 |
| 2010s | 3,635 | #514 (2019) | #721 |
| 2020s | 3,279 | #487 (2021) | #542 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cassius in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 320,916 of them was named Cassius, which outranked 13.7% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,421 names at #15,194; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 3,361 of them was named Cassius, which outranked 96.0% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).