Cassaundra
Feminine · “she who shines over men”
Cassaundra inserts a u to write the vowel as English says it. The Greek has a plain a; American speech gives it the vowel of caught rather than of cat; and the au is the standard English way of writing that, which makes this one of the few respellings that corrects rather than decorates.
How old is the name Cassaundra?
Cassaundra first appears in US birth records in 1947 — 78 years ago. The typical Cassaundra alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 2,300 people named Cassaundra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cassaundra most popular?
Cassaundra peaked in 1989, reaching #1111 nationally. See the whole 1989 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Kassandra to Cassaundra
The story of Cassaundra
The vowel is genuinely unstable. Cassandra in careful English has the a of cat; in most American speech it has something closer to the a of call, and the difference is audible. Writing au for that sound is entirely regular — caught, taught, haul, fault — so this spelling is doing what English spelling says it should. That it looks eccentric is a comment on how rarely names are spelled according to the rules of the language rather than according to how the name has always been written.
Meaningscholars disagree
she who shines over men, on the commonest of several readings
The Greek name is generally read as containing a word about men or about shining, and neither reading is secure. What is certain is the second half, which is the same element as in Alexandra.
How the name formed
- Kassandra
- Cassandra
- Cassaundra
Related forms: Kassandra
Pronouncing Cassaundra
kuh-SAWN-druh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The au writes the vowel most American speakers already use.
Nicknames for Cassaundra
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1947
- Most girls named
- 1991130 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1111reached in 1989
- Change vs 2012
- +33.3%8 in 2014, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Cassaundra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kassandra in Greek — transliteration
Cassaundras among us
people named Cassaundra are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Cassaundra sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The spelling follows English rules rather than inherited convention.
- Cassie and Saundra are ready short forms, both standing names.
- The figure behind it is among the best known in Greek literature.
- Cassandra is the standard spelling and will be written instead, every time.
- It is the longest spelling of a name that was already long.
- It reads clearly as a name of the second half of the twentieth century.
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- How many Cassaundras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Cassaundra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Cassaundra in 2025?
- Cassaundra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Cassaundra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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