Cassia
Feminine · “cinnamon-like spice”
Cassia is a bark that tastes like cinnamon and is not — and in Job, one of the three daughters born to him after everything was restored is named for it.
How old is the name Cassia?
Cassia first appears in US birth records in 1954 — 71 years ago. The typical Cassia alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 2,200 people named Cassia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cassia most popular?
Cassia peaked in 2025, reaching #2017 nationally. Today it ranks #2017, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
From qetsi'ah to Cassia
The story of Cassia
Job's three daughters at the end of the book are Jemimah, Keziah and Keren-happuch, and the text says no women in the land were as beautiful; it also says he gave them an inheritance alongside their brothers, which was unusual. Cassia is the Greek of Keziah. It appears in American records rising and in current use.
Meaning
cinnamon-like spice
From the Greek kasia, borrowed from a Semitic word — the Hebrew qetsi'ah, from a root meaning 'to strip off bark'. Cassia is a genuine spice, related to but distinct from true cinnamon. Job 42 names a daughter Keziah from the same word. The route is documented.
How the name formed
- qetsi'ah
- kasia
- Cassia
Related forms: Κασία · Keziah · Cassiah
Pronouncing Cassia
KASS-ee-uh
Three syllables, stress on the first. Some bearers say KASH-uh with two.
Nicknames for Cassia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1954
- Most girls named
- 202594 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2017reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +11.9%94 in 2025, from 84
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Cassia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Κασία in Greek — transliteration
- Keziah in Hebrew — related form
- Cassiah in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Cassias among us
people named Cassia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 17,099 born in 2025 was named Cassia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Cassia
- #2017
- Cassia on the 2025 chart
- #831
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Cassia went to 94 girls in 2025, but Kassia is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 129, which makes it the 831st most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,186 places above the chart.
- Cassia94
- Kassia35
About 1 girl in 12,459 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 17,099 for Cassia itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Carlita test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Cassia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Carlita climbed just as high around 1953, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Carlita's path sketches the road Cassia is walking now.
Cassia sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Cassia is headed
Cassia should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Cassia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cassia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That Job's daughters were given an inheritance alongside their brothers is a genuinely striking detail.
- Cass and Cassie are two short forms, both with real records.
- The spice meaning is concrete and pleasant.
- The pronunciation splits between three syllables and two.
- Cassia, Cassidy and Cassandra are all close enough to cause confusion.
- Keziah is the biblical spelling and looks unrelated.
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Frequently asked
- How many Cassias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,200 people named Cassia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Cassia?
- Cassia is the most-used spelling in US records — 94 of the 129 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kassia.
- How popular is the name Cassia in 2025?
- Cassia ranks #2017 among US girl names in 2025, with 94 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cassia?
- About 1 in every 17,099 US girls born in 2025 was named Cassia — 94 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cassia with classmates?
- Cassia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Cassia
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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