Given name & surname
Casandra
Casandra is a feminine given name. It is used in Spanish and Galician.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Casandra is a variant of Cassandra. An origin associated with Cassandra is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1940. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Casandra through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15,791
- 7 boys · 15,784 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 642 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #10,261 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −41%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,261 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 41.2% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 642 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 13,691 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Casandra’s family of names
Casandra has a related form in Cassandra. In Portuguese usage, Casandra has a conventional equivalent in the French form CASSANDRE.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Casandra
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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