Entry № 1794 · Latin origin

Cassia Cassia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KASH-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Cinnamon tree"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "cinnamon tree".

Cassia comes from the Latin (and Greek kasía) name for the cinnamon tree — a fragrant spice tree whose bark and oil have been valued since antiquity.

Cassia is rising fast in the U.S.

Cinnamon tree. One of Job's daughters.

The name in its native script.

קציעה
Transliteration
Qĕṣīʿāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈkæʃ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cassia stands.

Cassia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Cassias before her.

Real people
Cassia
Modern; rare in records.
In fiction
Cassia Reyes
Heroine of Ally Condie's Matched.
2010 novel

Names connected to Cassia.

The number behind Cassia.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cassia reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.