# Cass (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cass/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “descendant of the curly-haired one”, “curly” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,993 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,860 / 133 (7% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 246, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from a pet form of Cassandra. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Cais (“descendant of the curly-haired one”), from cas (“curly”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 6 | 6,725 |
| 1970 | 8 | 5,880 |
| 1972 | 5 | 8,448 |
| 1973 | 6 | 7,550 |
| 1976 | 5 | 9,490 |
| 1977 | 7 | 7,661 |
| 1979 | 5 | 10,420 |
| 1981 | 6 | 9,283 |
| 1983 | 10 | 6,286 |
| 1987 | 5 | 11,558 |
| 1990 | 6 | 11,635 |
| 1991 | 5 | 13,490 |
| 1995 | 5 | 13,781 |
| 2003 | 5 | 16,229 |
| 2017 | 5 | 16,363 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 4,126 |
| 2012 | 12 | 6,688 |
| 2013 | 11 | 7,112 |
| 2014 | 23 | 4,282 |
| 2015 | 20 | 4,744 |
| 2016 | 29 | 3,701 |
| 2017 | 28 | 3,789 |
| 2018 | 20 | 4,771 |
| 2019 | 24 | 4,248 |
| 2020 | 24 | 4,162 |
| 2021 | 34 | 3,370 |
| 2022 | 23 | 4,459 |
| 2023 | 16 | 5,699 |
| 2024 | 18 | 5,276 |
| 2025 | 19 | 5,068 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2011 | 10 | 2,039 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,458 |
| 2014 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,483 |
| 2016 | 14 | 1,704 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,040 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,683 |
| 2019 | 17 | 1,439 |
| 2020 | 16 | 1,492 |
| 2021 | 25 | 1,117 |
| 2022 | 17 | 1,469 |
| 2023 | 23 | 1,207 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 29 | 1,035 |

## People named Cass

- Cass Sunstein, American legal scholar, writer, blogger (b. 1954)
- Cass Gilbert, American architect (1859-1934)
- Cass Ballenger, American politician (1926-2015)
- Cass McCombs, American musician (born 1977)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.