Cassandra is a Greek name of uncertain meaning, usually explained as "shining upon men" or "she who excels over men". In Greek myth she was the Trojan princess to whom Apollo gave the gift of prophecy and then the curse that nobody would believe her. In the United States Cassandra was exactly number 100 in 2000, slipped to 512 in 2015 and ranks 631 among girls' names in 2025.