Cassia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Feminine form of Cassius or }Cassian
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kasiɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cassia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 28K
- ITItaly≈1 in 95K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Brazil, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Feminine form of Cassius or }Cassian. It may also in part represent an adoption of the name of the spice (see Kezia).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cassia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #146 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 68K | Cassia | 164 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 95K | 1 | Cassia | 30 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Cassia | 7 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Cassia | 10 |
| AR Argentina | — | 197 | 1 in 231K | 197 | — | 1 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 225K | listed | Cassia | 35 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cassia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The spice made from the bark of members of the genus Cinnamomum other than true cinnamon (C. verum), when they are distinguished from cinnamon.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, variante regional e arcaica de Cascia
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In English, county, ID
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, spice
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Hebrew; variety of cinnamon; see Kezia
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Giuseppe Cassiab. 1920ITItalian composer and record producer (1920–1982)
- Amedeo Cassiab. 1960ITItalian association football manager
- Rita de Cássia Oliveirab. 1965BRBrazilian singer
- Paul Cassiab. 1972FRFrench writer and university professor
- Fabio Cassiab. 1980ITresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 59 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 197 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Cassia?
- A machine transcription gives /kasiɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Where does the name Cassia come from?
- Feminine form of Cassius or }Cassian. It may also in part represent an adoption of the name of the spice (see Kezia). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Cassia mean?
- Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Cassius or }Cassian.
- In which country does Cassia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.9 thousand people named Cassia in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cassia.
- How common is the name Cassia?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 197 people named Cassia, about 1 in 231 thousand residents.
- How common is Cassia compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Cassia is the 146th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cassia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cassiaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cassia” — the 146th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.