Cassandra comes from the Greek name Kassandra, derived from possibly ‘kekasmai’ meaning ‘to excel, to shine’ and ‘aner’ meaning ‘man’. As it is a feminine name, it means ‘shining upon men’.
Cassandra is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Cassandra 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, Cassandra ranks 524. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Cassandra. In the entire USA, approximately 166,443 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Cassandra. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.
Cassandra comes from the Greek name Kassandra, derived from possibly ‘kekasmai’ meaning ‘to excel, to shine’ and ‘aner’ meaning ‘man’. As it is a feminine name, it means ‘shining upon men’.
This was a real surprise! Cassandra is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off at the end of the 20th century. According to our SmartGenius statistics, it reached its highest rank at #48 in the year 1990, when 7,073 parents chose this name for their newborn daughter. This made Cassandra much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. Now, this name seems to have found its place and has established itself in the beginning of the 21st century as well.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Cassandra was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Cassandra ranked 590 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby girls a total of 452 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Cassandra will remain a universally popular name.
Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Cassandra occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Cassandra is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Cassandra is not one of those names that one encounters in every neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, is noticeable and special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 166,437 women and girls of all generations bear the name Cassandra – that is one in 926. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Nevada, where one in 460 women and girls is called Cassandra, while it is particularly rare in Kentucky, where you have to ask an average of 1,266 women for their name to get Cassandra as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With nine letters, the name Cassandra 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 with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Cassandra 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 Cassandra, you can simply say:
Cat
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.
Cassandra
Cassandra
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
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.
C
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. Cassandra sounds like this:
