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Cassaundra

Girls' name

Possibly to shine; excel over, through Cassandra

Cassaundra has been given to 2,393 babies in the U.S. since 1947. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1989, with 149 recorded.

Babies named Cassaundra, 2014

1 in 463,000

Cassaundra over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cassaundra: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to shine; excel over, through Cassandra

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cassaundra means

Cassaundra belongs to the name family reached through Cassaundra → Cassandra → Κασσάνδρα. Its meaning is “to shine; excel over”.

Origin, language, and formation

Cassaundra is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cassandra and Κασσάνδρα.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,393 girls were recorded with the name Cassaundra between 1947 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 149 in 1989; its best national rank was #1,108 in 1989.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cassaundra?

Cassaundra had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 463,000
8 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 223,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
321,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cassaundra sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 321,172 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cassaundra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cassaundras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cassaundra was born before 1988 — so the typical Cassaundra is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,371
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1990s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (812).

Is Cassaundra rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1989 (149)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,108
1989

Spellings of Cassaundra

Cassaundra is not the most common spelling — Cassandra is, with 74.9% against Cassaundra's 1.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Cassaundra is used

Across 1910–2025, Cassaundra was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 163,799 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Maine1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 100,000
  7. 7Missouri1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cassaundra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cassaundra around the world

Where Cassaundra ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1991–1996
    #1,815
    in 1996

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Cassaundra by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,108
1989
Peak year
1989
149 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
2,393
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cassaundra

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Cassaundra

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cassaundra, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Cassaundra

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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