Cassian

What Cassian means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Cassian yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #4,890 in 2015, #479 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Cassian?

US: Rising: up from #4890 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1442 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 633 boys got the name (#479 that year). First in the US records in 1997.

How common

• About 1 in 2,698 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,721 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,928 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (2.2 per 1,000 boys), NV (1.06 per 1,000 boys), CA (0.7 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Cassian is #479 in the US and #287 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Cassian were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kassian42 US · 10 E&W
• Casian0 US · 20 E&W
• Kasian5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Cassian

Boys

• Leo#19“lion”^*
• Bennett#40Form of Benedict, meaning “blessed, well spoken of”^*
• August#81“month of August”^*
• Cassius#582Editor’s note Up from #644 in 2015 to #582 in 2025 in the US
• Felix#175“happy, lucky”^*
• Roman#42Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #42 in 2025

For a sister

• Leona#429Feminine form of Leo, meaning “lion”^*
• Aurelia#290“golden”^*
• Aurora#15Italian, from Latin Aurōra, meaning “dawn, sunrise”^*
• Liana#385Editor’s note Up from #525 in 2015 to #385 in 2025 in the US
• Emilia#45Variant of Emily, meaning “rival, emulator”^*
• Nova#46“new”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Cassian’s. Rank is US 2025.