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cass Name Meaning and History

English: from the medieval female personal name Cass, a short form of Cassandra. This was the name (of uncertain, possibly non-Greek, origin) of an ill-fated Trojan prophetess of classical legend, condemned to foretell the future but never be believed; her story was well known and widely popular in medieval England.

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Distribution of cass Families in the US in 1920
Number of cass families
 108-213
 37-107
 1-36
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