Kassondra
Feminine
Kassondra is a modern spelling of one of the oldest names in European literature — a Trojan princess in Homer, a prophet in the plays that came after, and eventually an ordinary English name given to ordinary English daughters for several centuries.
How old is the name Kassondra?
Kassondra first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Kassondra alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 900 people named Kassondra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kassondra most popular?
Kassondra peaked in 1990, reaching #1594 nationally. See the whole 1990 chart.
Where it comes from
From Kassandra to Kassondra
The story of Kassondra
Medieval England was in love with the Troy story — not Homer, whom almost nobody could read, but the elaborate romances built on top of it, which treated the Trojans as ancestors and their war as the founding event of European chivalry. Names came out of those books and into the parish registers: Cassandra, Hector, Diomed, Troilus. Cassandra was a genuinely common English woman's name for three hundred years, given by families who had no Greek and would have been surprised to learn what happened to her in the original. The name's other great bearer chose silence: Jane Austen's sister Cassandra, who kept her letters for decades and then burned or cut most of them, and in doing so decided almost everything the world would ever know about her sister.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Greek name has never been satisfactorily explained. The second half looks like a word about men or about shining, and the first half has no agreed reading at all. It is old enough to have arrived in Greek from somewhere else, which is usually where explanations run out.
How the name formed
- Kassandra
- Cassandra
- Kassondra
Related forms: Kassandra · Cassandra · Casandra
Pronouncing Kassondra
kuh-SAHN-druh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The o in this spelling suggests a rounder middle vowel than the standard spelling does, and some families say it that way.
Nicknames for Kassondra
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
- 1967
- Most girls named
- 199094 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1594reached in 1990
- Change vs 2012
- 0.0%5 in 2014, from 5
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.
Kassondra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kassandra in Greek — same name
- Cassandra in Italian — same name
- Casandra in Spanish — same name
Kassondras among us
people named Kassondra 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
Kassondra 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 name is ancient, literary and instantly recognized in every European language.
- It carries two very different short forms, one playful and one entirely grown up.
- The spelling is distinctive while the name itself is familiar.
- Cassandra is the standard spelling and hers will be written that way by most people.
- The name is a byword for being disbelieved, which is a thing she will hear about.
- It is long, and American classrooms will shorten it within a week.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kassondras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Kassondra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kassondra in 2025?
- Kassondra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Kassondra with classmates?
- Kassondra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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