Kasandra
Feminine · “Contested”
Kasandra is Cassandra with a K, and Cassandra is the woman who was given true prophecy and the curse that nobody would believe her. It is one of the darkest stories attached to any name still in ordinary use.
How old is the name Kasandra?
Kasandra first appears in US birth records in 1943 — 82 years ago. The typical Kasandra alive today was born around 1996, making them about 29 years old. About 9,200 people named Kasandra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kasandra most popular?
Kasandra peaked in 1993, reaching #597 nationally. Today it ranks #5410, 4,813 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
Where it comes from
From Kassandra to Kasandra
The story of Kasandra
Cassandra was a daughter of Priam; Apollo gave her prophecy and, when she refused him, added that no one would believe her. She foresaw the fall of Troy and was not heeded, and Aeschylus gives her one of the most harrowing scenes in Greek tragedy. Despite the story the name has been used steadily since the Middle Ages, when the Troy romances made it fashionable, and it rose sharply in America through the 1970s and 1980s. Kasandra is one of the respellings that followed, peaking in 1993, alongside Kassandra and Casandra.
Meaningscholars disagree
Contested; possibly one who shines upon men
Greek Kassandra is generally read with a second element from anēr, andros, man, and a first element from kekasmai, to excel or shine — giving something like she who excels among men. The derivation is old and not secure. The K spelling of Kasandra follows the Greek kappa rather than the Latin c, and is also a modern American respelling; both explanations apply to different bearers.
How the name formed
- Kassandra
- Cassandra
- Kasandra
Related forms: Κασσάνδρα · Cassandra · Casandra · Cassandra
Pronouncing Kasandra
kuh-SAN-druh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Greek gives the doubled s real length and stresses the same syllable. The K and C spellings are identical in speech.
Nicknames for Kasandra
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
- 1943
- Most girls named
- 1994366 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #597reached in 1993
- Change vs 2023
- −23.3%23 in 2025, from 30
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.
Kasandra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Κασσάνδρα in Greek — transliteration
- Cassandra in English — spelling variant
- Casandra in Spanish — spelling variant
- Cassandra in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Kasandras among us
people named Kasandra are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 69,881 born in 2025 was named Kasandra
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kasandra
- #5410
- Kasandra on the 2025 chart
- #928
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kasandra went to 23 girls in 2025, but Casandra is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 32, which makes it the 928th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,482 places above the chart.
- Kasandra23
- Casandra9
About 1 girl in 50,227 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 69,881 for Kasandra itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Danelle test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kasandra's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Danelle climbed just as high around 1974, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Danelle's path sketches the road Kasandra is walking now.
Kasandra sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Kasandra beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kasandra in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kassie and Sandra are both complete short forms with their own histories.
- The Greek story is famous and easy to look up.
- Everyone can say it after one hearing.
- Cassandra is the standard spelling and will be written for it.
- The mythological bearer's story is one of being disbelieved, which is a heavy thing.
- In English a Cassandra is a person whose warnings are ignored, which is now a common noun.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kasandras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 9,200 people named Kasandra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kasandra?
- Kasandra is the most-used spelling in US records — 23 of the 32 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Casandra.
- How popular is the name Kasandra in 2025?
- Kasandra ranks #5410 among US girl names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kasandra?
- About 1 in every 69,881 US girls born in 2025 was named Kasandra — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kasandra with classmates?
- Kasandra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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