Cassiopeia as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Cassiopeia

What is the meaning of the name Cassiopeia ?

The baby name Cassiopeia is a Female name , 5 syllables long and is pronounced /ˌkæs.iˈoʊ.pi.ə/ (kas-ee-OH-pee-uh).

Cassiopeia is Greek in Origin.

Cassiopeia derives from ancient Greek Κασσιόπεια (Kassiópeia), also seen as Κασσιόπη (Kassiópē), Latinized Cassiopeia. The root is debated: Kassios, an epithet of Zeus connected to Mount Kasios, plus ops/ope “voice, face,” yields readings such as “she of Kassios’s voice/face” or the looser “she whose words excel.” Related spellings include Kassiopeia/Kassiope (German/Greek-influenced), Cassiopea (Italian), Cassiope (French), and Casiopea. Nicknames range from Cass and Cassie to Sia and Pia.

In Greek myth Cassiopeia is the boastful queen of Aethiopia, wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda; for claiming superior beauty she was punished and fixed in the sky as the W-shaped northern constellation. The name saw little use in English until antiquarian and astronomical fashions of the 18th–19th centuries revived it. Today it remains rare but striking, buoyed by interest in myth, night-sky imagery, and elaborate, vowel-rich names.