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Kasandra

#5,478 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to shine; excel over, through Κασσάνδρα

Kasandra has been given to 9,468 babies in the U.S. since 1943. In 2025 it ranked #5,478 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 391 recorded.

Babies named Kasandra, 2025

1 in 144,000

Kasandra over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kasandra: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to shine; excel over, through Κασσάνδρα

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kasandra means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Kasandra is used in Polish.

Kasandra comes through Ancient Greek Κασσάνδρα.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cassandra and Κασσάνδρα.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Kasandra is pronounced /kaˈsan.dra/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,468 girls were recorded with the name Kasandra between 1943 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 391 in 1993; its best national rank was #597 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,560 in 2020 to #5,478 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,807 in 2015 to #5,478 in 2025.

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 Kasandra?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 69,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,478
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kasandra 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 2025 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kasandra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kasandras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kasandra was born before 1995 — so the typical Kasandra is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,430
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (3,340).

Is Kasandra 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
+3,212
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+82
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,671
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.9%
Peak was 1993 (391)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#597
1993

Spellings of Kasandra

Kasandra is not the most common spelling — Sandra is, with 78.1% against Kasandra's 0.84%.

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 Kasandra is used

Across 1910–2025, Kasandra was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 22,954 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 9,091
  2. 2California1 in 9,091
  3. 3Nevada1 in 9,091
  4. 4Texas1 in 11,111
  5. 5Washington1 in 12,500
  6. 6Florida1 in 14,286
  7. 7Oregon1 in 14,286
  8. 8Colorado1 in 16,667

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. Kasandra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kasandra around the world

Where Kasandra 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.

  • England & Wales
    2012–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1992–2018
    #6,782
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1974–1990
    #691
    in 1990

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kasandra

People whose public names include Kasandra, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kasandra in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Kasandra. Linked forms have their own page here.

CasandraKasundraCassandraKassandra

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Kasandra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,478
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 82
Best rank ever
#597
1993
Peak year
1993
391 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,468
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Kasandra

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

KassandraKasondraKassondraKasaundraKassidyCasandraKassieKassaundraLeandraDeandraKassidiKashmereLisandraKasieKashlynnAlondraKaseyKashmirPhaedraKindraAlessandraAlejandraKassiSondra

Names with a curve like Kasandra

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

ShakiraGabrielFabiolaYesseniaCristalKatelinDesiraeStephanyPreciousKalynMonetLizette

Sibling names for Kasandra

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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