Meaning and history
Cassandra comes from the Greek name Κασσάνδρα (Kassandra), possibly from κέκασμαι (kekasmai), meaning “to excel” or “to surpass,” and ἀνήρ (aner), “man,” though another theory links the first element to κασσύω (kassyo), meaning “to stitch up a plot.” In Greek mythology, Cassandra was a Trojan princess, the daughter of Priam and Hecuba, who received the gift of prophecy from Apollo but was cursed by him to be disbelieved after she rejected him. The name was common in medieval England because of the popularity of Trojan War legends, later became rare, and was revived in the 20th century.
20062006: 1,559 births, rank #219
2007: 1,327 births, rank #260
2008: 1,184 births, rank #284
2009: 1,012 births, rank #326
2010: 980 births, rank #329
20112011: 779 births, rank #405
2012: 743 births, rank #423
2013: 663 births, rank #464
2014: 602 births, rank #514
2015: 616 births, rank #512
20162016: 544 births, rank #571
2017: 499 births, rank #606
2018: 446 births, rank #663
2019: 493 births, rank #611
2020: 440 births, rank #655
20212021: 497 births, rank #599
2022: 453 births, rank #651
2023: 457 births, rank #641
2024: 486 births, rank #615
20252025: 463 births, rank #630
Cassandra moved from #615 to #631 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1990, with 7,054 births.