Cassian

maleStatistical record

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

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

Cassian: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #323, and it stood at #509 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#323highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2020
1999	#1664
2001	#1949
2002	#2005
2003	#3467
2004	#2578
2005	#1617
2006	#1643
2007	#1440
2008	#1828
2009	#1749
2010	#1801
2011	#1158
2012	#1313
2013	#1294
2014	#1560
2015	#1442
2016	#1498
2017	#833
2018	#821
2019	#731
2020	#524
2021	#526
2022	#515
2023	#323
2024	#367

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 26 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #367 among boys in England and Wales, #727 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2020 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #323 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #509 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Cassian appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 810 births with the name.

Cassian 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.

Cassian'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	#2020 (1996)	#323 (2023)	#367 (2024)	26 of 29	810 (1996–2024)	136 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#711 (2013)	#509 (2025)	#509 (2025)	4 of 13	16 (2013–2025)	6 (2025)

Cassian 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 Cassian in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	12	2 of 10	6
2000s	80	9 of 10	9
2010s	242	10 of 10	24
2020sbusiest	476	5 of 10	95

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 95 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2022 and 2023, when recorded births rose by 60, from 76 to 136.

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

Cassian 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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #323 in England and Wales in 2023.

Cassian'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	#367	118	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#323	136	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#515	76	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#526	74	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#524	72	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#731	45	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#821	38	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#833	38	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1498	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1442	17	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1560	15	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1294	19	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1313	19	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1158	22	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1801	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1749	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1828	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1440	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1643	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1617	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1664	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#509	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#660	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#711	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 1996 and 2025, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #323, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 136 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2013, and 28 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.

Cassandra · #25, 57y
Cassia · #440, 29y
Cassidy · #370, 30y
Cassie · #55, 36y

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.

Armaan · #322, 29y
Dorian · #322, 29y
Finnan · #324, 23y
Kourtney · #324, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aarron · #323, 19y
Briain · #323, 12y
Geoff · #323, 11y
Aadam · #322, 29y

Cassian was ranked #323 in England and Wales · Boys in 2023. 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.

Cassian 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 Cassian without appearing here.

Cassian moved ahead of

Shannon Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2578 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1643 and #4052.
Leif Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1749 and #1568 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #1158 and #3300.
Isak Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1440 and #1440 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1828 and #3687.
Anders Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1749 and #1749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1801 and #3332.

Moved ahead of Cassian

Cooper Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1664 and #1850 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #2005 and #907.
Hudson Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1664 and #1850 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #1949 and #1202.
Hunter Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2005 and #2254 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #3467 and #2857.
Arlo Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1664 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #1949 and #1949.

Moved the opposite way to Cassian

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cassian went from #2020 to #367 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cassian went from #2020 to #367 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cassian went from #2020 to #367 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cassian went from #2020 to #367 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Cassian

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cassian went from #2020 to #367 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cassian went from #2020 to #367 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cassian went from #2020 to #367 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cassian went from #2020 to #367 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #323 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Cassian

Cassian at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cassian across 2 official records

Cassian by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Cassian appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Cassian at a glance

Cassian across 2 official records

Cassian by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Cassian appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Cassian

Cassian and the names beside it

Cassian moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Cassian

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