Kassandra
Feminine · Greek roots
Kassandra is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 33,512 girls against 16 boys since 1880.
Kassandra is the older Greek spelling of a name Homer already knew: Kassandra, daughter of Priam, appears in the Iliad, and Aeschylus gave her the great prophecy scene of his Agamemnon in the fifth century BC. The K is not a modern flourish but the Greek kappa restored, the letter Latin scribes swapped for a C on the way west. Nearly three thousand years later the four beats of it still fall the same way in the mouth.
How old is the name Kassandra?
Kassandra first appears in US birth records in 1945 — 80 years ago. The typical Kassandra alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 33,000 people named Kassandra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kassandra most popular?
Kassandra peaked in 1993, reaching #120 nationally. Today it ranks #1173, 1,053 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
Kassandra appears on these lists:
Where it comes from
From Kassandra (Greek) to Kassandra
The story of Kassandra
The name belongs first to Greek epic: Kassandra, a princess of Troy, who in the Iliad is one of Priam's daughters and in later tragedy is the prophetess whose warnings no one heeds. Latin writers wrote her Cassandra, and that C-spelling is the form that reached medieval England, where it was in ordinary use as a woman's name for centuries. The K-form traveled a different route into modern use — through Greek itself, through German and Polish, and through Spanish-speaking families in the Americas, which is part of why it sits strongest in California, Texas and Florida. English-language use of Kassandra took hold in the middle of the twentieth century and has held a steady place ever since.
Meaningscholars disagree
probably from Greek roots for "to excel, shine" and "man"
The most widely repeated reading breaks it into Greek kekasmai, "to excel or shine", plus anēr, "man" — hence glosses like "shining over men" or "she who excels men". Other scholars treat it as pre-Greek, a name inherited from an older Aegean language and therefore not translatable at all. Both readings are taken seriously, and neither has won.
How the name formed
- KassandraGreek
- CassandraLatin
- CassandreOld French
- Kassandra
Related forms: Κασσάνδρα · Cassandra · Cassandre · Casandra · Kasandra · Cassandra
Pronouncing Kassandra
kuh-SAN-druh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Some speakers broaden the middle vowel to kuh-SAHN-druh; Spanish speakers give it four even beats, ka-SAN-dra.
Nicknames for Kassandra
High
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
- 1945
- Most girls named
- 19941,763 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #120reached in 1993
- Change vs 2023
- +3.1%197 in 2025, from 191
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.
Kassandra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Κασσάνδρα in Greek — transliteration
- Cassandra in English — spelling variant
- Cassandre in French — same name
- Casandra in Spanish — spelling variant
- Kasandra in Polish — spelling variant
- Cassandra in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Kassandras among us
people named Kassandra are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 8,159 born in 2025 was named Kassandra
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kassandra
- #1173
- Kassandra on the 2025 chart
- #429
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kassandra went to 197 girls in 2025, but Cassandra is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 660, which makes it the 429th most-given girls’ name of the year — 744 places above the chart.
- Cassandra463
- Kassandra197
About 1 girl in 2,435 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 8,159 for Kassandra 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 Summer test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kassandra's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Summer climbed just as high around 1977, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Summer's path sketches the road Kassandra is walking now.
Kassandra 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
Where Kassandra is headed
Kassandra should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kassandra beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kassandra in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The root name has an unbroken record from Greek epic through medieval England to today, so it is familiar to almost everyone who hears it.
- Established short forms already in use: Kassie, Kass, Sandra, Sandy.
- Recognizable in Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Polish with only small changes to spelling.
- Pronunciation is never in doubt, even for people meeting the K-spelling for the first time.
- Strongest in California, Texas and Florida, and equally at home in English and Spanish.
- The default spelling in English is Cassandra with a C. Expect to spell it aloud fairly often, and expect forms and emails to come back with the C.
- The mythological Kassandra is the prophetess no one believes — an association strong enough that "Cassandra" is used in English for anyone whose warnings are ignored. Some people find that a rich inheritance; others would rather not hand it over.
- The name is much better represented among adults than in current kindergarten classes, so a child is likely to be the only one in her year while meeting grown women who share it.
Nobody names a baby alone.
Put Kassandra to the vote.
Add it to a family vote or a couple’s swipe deck — the other person gets one card, a simple answer and room to say why. No app, no account for them.
Only the people you invite can see your list.
Already decided on Kassandra? Hide it among decoys and let them guess.
What they receive
Someone added a name to your list
Kassandra
Feminine · Greek roots · #1173 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Kassandras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 33,000 people named Kassandra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kassandra?
- Kassandra is one of 2 recorded spellings. Cassandra is the more common one — 463 births in 2025 against 197 for Kassandra.
- How popular is the name Kassandra in 2025?
- Kassandra ranks #1173 among US girl names in 2025, with 197 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kassandra?
- About 1 in every 8,159 US girls born in 2025 was named Kassandra — 197 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kassandra with classmates?
- Kassandra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Kassandra
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Klover#1173 · Leni#1173 · Scarlette#1173 · Dalilah#1173 · Elyana#1173 · Carson#1173 · Susanna#1173 · Aleyna#1173
Looking for what else is popular rather than what resembles Kassandra? See the current top 100.
Choosing between Kassandra and another name?
See them side by side — full stats, history and a gentle verdict.
Compare side by sideIn a hurry? Just pick a winner — one tap, no sign-up, and you see how everyone else voted.
Weighing a whole shortlist? Add the rest in the builder, or settle it with a bracket.
Cast your vote
Which one would you pick?
Your gut first, the numbers after — the split shows once you pick.
US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
No advertising trackers and no data sellinghow we handle your dataindependent and founder-run, about Name Battle