Is Cassia the next Katniss?

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BettyBi0 · 24/01/2014 14:05

Help! My beautiful new daughter is 15 days old and my partner and I can't decide on a name. The only name we seem to agree on is Cassia, as in the cinnamon bark. We've been pronouncing it Cass-ee-uh.

After a bit of googling I've found out that it is the name of the female protagonist in a teen trilogy called Matched by Ally Condie which Disney bought the movie rights to. Annoyingly she pronounces the name Cash-uh, as in Russia or like the Polish name Kasia.

Do you think there is a chance that Cassia would be the equivalent of Katniss in a few years time?

Also, which is the most common way people would pronounce it? I don't want her to be explaining it the whole time like trying to explain her name was See-oh-ban, when everyone else would call her Siobhan/Sha-vawn

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HoratiaDrelincourt · 24/01/2014 14:24

I think your pronunciation is more logical.

And if by "like Katniss" you mean "a name hardly anybody is using" then I don't think it's a problem. Cassia isn't made up.

withaspongeandarustyspanner · 24/01/2014 14:19

I'd say Cass-ee-a. I wanted this for DC3, but DC3 turned out to be a boy. It's lovely. I don't think it's all that popular and it has botanical origins, too as I remember. It's a spice - like a cinnamon, I think.

(Are people really calling their DD's Katniss??)

Theas18 · 24/01/2014 14:18

If I saw it and didn't know I'd dither between the 2 and end up with Casha probably but as ever if you told me once I'd know.

No different than Marcia - it is Marsha or Mar see ah. Or Alicia as Alice eah or aleesha (actually locally there is a different as the aleeshas are usually spelled phonetically like that)

Thurlow · 24/01/2014 14:13

I'd say Cass-ee-a. Pretty name.

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