Cache
Cache was given to 34 boys in 2025, #3,389 among boys’ names; 1,480 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Cache and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cache by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cache?
#3,389 among boys’ names, 2025
Cache fell from #3,030 in 2015 to #3,389 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 19.8 to 19.9 per million.
66 babies in 2012, the peak
Cache peaked in 2012, when 66 babies were given it (59 boys, #2,214 among boys’ names). The 34 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 34 | #3,389 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 39 | #3,114 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 31 | #3,636 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 29 | #3,783 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,687 | 37 | #3,187 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,766 | 15 | #5,745 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,138 | 32 | #3,499 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 34 | #3,304 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 43 | #2,806 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 25 | #4,114 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 38 | #3,030 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 26 | #3,913 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 44 | #2,671 | |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,751 | 59 | #2,214 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,842 | 53 | #2,379 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,295 | 47 | #2,587 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,642 | 45 | #2,709 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,199 | 46 | #2,687 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,960 | 39 | #2,974 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,937 | 36 | #3,031 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,992 | 27 | #3,536 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,029 | 18 | #4,622 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,268 | 35 | #2,789 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,438 | 19 | #4,203 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,110 | 15 | #4,915 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,002 | 8 | #7,534 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,212 | 5 | #10,099 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,122 | 13 | #4,910 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,722 | 11 | #5,320 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,559 | 16 | #4,035 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,095 | 6 | #7,920 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,389 | 12 | #4,828 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,688 | 11 | #5,041 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,293 | 7 | #6,747 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,018 | 7 | #6,595 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,605 | 6 | #7,288 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,512 | 6 | #7,060 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,771 | 8 | #5,250 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,091 | 7 | #5,546 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,117 | 5 | #6,859 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 6 | #5,724 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #6,394 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Cache a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,480 Americans recorded as Cache, 32% are girls and 68% boys. In 2025 it went to 34 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cache: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cache, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,480 Americans ever recorded as Cache. The median Cache alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,149 people named Cache (383 women and girls, 766 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,274 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 291 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 726 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 441 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Cache born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 9 | #482 | 17.1× |
| Arkansas | 7 | #450 | 2.6× |
Where Cache is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cache is most over-represented in Utah: since 1981 it was given 17.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cache with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,653 babies since 1880, Cache is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 39 babies (87%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cache
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cache and names like it
- Compare Cache and KacheBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCache peaked in 2012.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cache since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Cache.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cache alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.