Cass

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Cass: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Cass: Recorded since 2001, its highest recorded position is #727, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
22times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#727highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 2001–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#1949
2006	#2282
2007	#3589
2008	#3687
2009	#1494
2010	#4678
2011	#2039
2012	#2458
2014	#2964
2015	#2483
2016	#1704
2017	#3040
2018	#1683
2019	#1439
2020	#1492
2021	#1117
2022	#1469
2023	#1207
2024	#1758

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 19 of the 24 years from 2001 to 2024.

In 2024: #727 among boys in Scotland, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1758 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2001–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2001
First recorded at #1949 among boys in England and Wales in 2001 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1758 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Cass appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 2001, and has registered 217 births with the name.

Cass across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Cass's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1949 (2001)	#1117 (2021)	#1758 (2024)	19 of 24	217 (2001–2024)	25 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#779 (2022)	#779 (2022)	#785 (2024)	2 of 3	6 (2022–2024)	3 (2022)

Cass by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Cass in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	36	5 of 10	7
2010s	86	9 of 10	10
2020sbusiest	95	5 of 10	19

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 19 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Cass appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2001 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #727 in Scotland in 2024.

Cass's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1758	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1207	23	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1469	17	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1117	25	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1492	16	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1439	17	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1683	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1704	14	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2483	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2964	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2458	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2039	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1494	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2001 and 2024, ranked in 19 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #727, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 25 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2022, and 23 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Casper · #61, 46y
Caspian · #117, 29y
Cassandra · #25, 57y
Cassia · #440, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ewen · #727, 22y
Iremide · #727, 14y
Rishaan · #727, 17y
Zadie · #700, 22y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Aafiyah · #727, 17y
Advait · #727, 13y
Aras · #727, 17y
Cici · #727, 13y

Cass was ranked #727 in Scotland · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Cass and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Cass without appearing here.

Cass moved ahead of

Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2483 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #1704 and #4810.
Brooke Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4678 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #2039 and #4647.
Kim Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4678 and #3865 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #2458 and #4805.
Brent Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2458 and #2458 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #2483 and #4747.

Moved ahead of Cass

Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1207 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1758 and #1132.
Rune Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1207 and #1799 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1758 and #1460.
Matheo Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1207 and #1363 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1758 and #1517.
Mathias Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1949 and #3134 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #2282 and #2087.

Moved the same way as Cass

Matheo Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cass went from #3589 to #1758 and Matheo from #4333 to #1517.
Braxton Compare
Between 2010 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cass went from #4678 to #1758 and Braxton from #4678 to #2088.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2001 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #727 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Cass across 2 official records

Cass by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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