Kassie
Feminine
Kassie sits on Cassandra, and Cassandra has the most specific curse in Greek myth: she is given true prophecy and the guarantee that nobody will ever believe her. It is a punishment nobody has improved on since.
How old is the name Kassie?
Kassie first appears in US birth records in 1919 — 106 years ago. The typical Kassie alive today was born around 1992, making them about 33 years old. About 6,900 people named Kassie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kassie most popular?
Kassie peaked in 1987, reaching #640 nationally. Today it ranks #2998, 2,358 places below that high. See the whole 1987 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Kassandra to Kassie
The story of Kassie
Cassandra is a daughter of Priam who warns Troy about the horse and is disbelieved, having refused Apollo after accepting his gift of prophecy. The name reached English through the medieval retellings of the Trojan war, which were enormously popular, and it was in ordinary English use by the thirteenth century — long before anyone was reading Homer directly. Kassie is a modern American short form of it, spelled with a K, and it also serves Cassidy and Katherine.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Greek Kassandra has no settled derivation. The second half is generally read as aner, andros, 'man', which appears in many Greek names; the first is argued, with 'shining' and 'excelling' both proposed. Neither has carried. Kassie also serves as a short form of Cassidy, an Irish surname, and of Katherine, whose own meaning is equally unsettled. Nothing here is established.
How the name formed
- Kassandra
- Cassandra
- Kassie
Related forms: Kassandra · Cassie · Cassandra
Pronouncing Kassie
KASS-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Said exactly as Cassie; the K changes the spelling and nothing you can hear.
Nicknames for Kassie
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
- 1919
- Most girls named
- 1988286 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #640reached in 1987
- Change vs 2023
- +7.8%55 in 2025, from 51
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.
Kassie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kassandra in Greek — related form
- Cassie in English — spelling variant
- Cassandra in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Georgia.
Kassies among us
people named Kassie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 29,223 born in 2025 was named Kassie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kassie
- #2998
- Kassie on the 2025 chart
- #732
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kassie went to 55 girls in 2025, but Cassie is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 230, which makes it the 732nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,266 places above the chart.
- Cassie175
- Kassie55
About 1 girl in 6,988 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 29,223 for Kassie 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 Garnett test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kassie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Garnett climbed just as high around 1904, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Garnett's path sketches the road Kassie is walking now.
Kassie 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 Kassie is headed
Kassie should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Kassie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kassie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Cassandra and Cassidy both stand behind it as full formal names if one is wanted.
- Two easy syllables that every English speaker says correctly at first sight.
- Six letters, nothing silent, and easy for a small child to write.
- Cassie is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected in writing.
- It is a diminutive by construction and reads as informal on official documents.
- The story attached to Cassandra is a bleak one, which some families weigh.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kassies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,900 people named Kassie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kassie?
- Kassie is one of 2 recorded spellings. Cassie is the more common one — 175 births in 2025 against 55 for Kassie.
- How popular is the name Kassie in 2025?
- Kassie ranks #2998 among US girl names in 2025, with 55 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kassie?
- About 1 in every 29,223 US girls born in 2025 was named Kassie — 55 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kassie with classmates?
- Kassie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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