Kassandra

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish

Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of the Greek name Κασσανδρα (Kassandra) of unknown meaning. Theories include:

1) 'Shining upon man', combination of Greek κεκασμαι (kekasmai) = 'to shine' and Greek ανηρ (aner), genitive ανδρος (andros) = 'man' ^[1]

2) 'Entangler of men', combination of Greek kassuō = 'I concoct a plot' and anēr, genitive andros = 'man' ^[2]

3) Combination of Greek *kad- = 'to outstand' and Greek anér, andrós = 'man' ^[3]

4) Greek name meaning 'catcher of men' ^[4]

5) Greek name meaning 'heroic one' ^[4]

6) Greek name deriving from the Greek place name Kassandreía on the island of Chalkidike, the place name deriving from Greek kainymai = 'to distinguish oneself, to excel oneself ^[4]

Related Names

Casandra	♀
Kasandra	♀
Cassandra	♀
Kassandra	♀

See also Sandra

Further Information

In a Greek legend, Kassandra was a Trojan princess, the daughter of Priamos and Hecuba, blessed with the gift of prophecy but cursed with the fate that nobodz would ever believe her. She was brought back to Greece as a captive concubine by Agamemnon, but met her death at the hands of his jealous wife Clytemnestra ^{[2] [5] [6]}

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[7]		67	104	0	0
Denmark[8]		57	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[9]		28	41	0	0
Finland[10]		n.a.	23	n.a	4
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Kassandra.

Sources: ^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

References

1. ↑ Mike Campbell: Behind the name http://www.behindthename.com
2. ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
3. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
4. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
5. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
6. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi