Kassandra is an ancient Greek name, that in recent years became known in English-speaking countries. In the Middle Ages and since the 20th century, the variant Cassandra was more popular.
Kassandra is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Kassandra isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Kassandra ranks 828. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Kassandra. In the entire USA, approximately 30,147 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Kassandra. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Kassandra is an ancient Greek name, that in recent years became known in English-speaking countries. In the Middle Ages and since the 20th century, the variant Cassandra was more popular.
Kassandra possibly derived... from ‘kekasmai’ meaning ‘to excel, to shine’ and ‘aner’ meaning ‘man’. As it is a feminine name, it means ‘shining upon men’.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With nine letters, the name Kassandra is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Kassandra and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kassandra, you can simply say:
Koala
Apple
Sun
Sun
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kassandra
Kassandra
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
A
S
S
A
N
D
R
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
K
A
S
S
A
N
D
R
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kassandra sounds like this:
