Cash
Cash was given to 1,181 boys in 2025, #287 among boys’ names; 27,840 Americans have been recorded with it since 1885 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 27,300 Americans named Cash and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 16.
Cash came back: it left the boys’ top 1,000 after 1893 and returned in 2003.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cash by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cash mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cash is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Variant of Case. In the US adopted by German immigrants named Kirch and Kirsch.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cash?
#287 among boys’ names, 2025
Cash fell from #266 in 2015 to #287 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.71 to 0.69 per 1,000.
1,491 babies in 2013, the peak
Cash peaked in 2013, when 1,491 babies were given it (1,483 boys, #243 among boys’ names). The 1,188 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,181 | #287 | 0.69 |
| 2024 | 1,087 | #316 | 0.63 |
| 2023 | 1,152 | #288 | 0.67 |
| 2022 | 1,310 | #264 | 0.75 |
| 2021 | 1,405 | #253 | 0.80 |
| 2020 | 1,292 | #264 | 0.75 |
| 2019 | 1,263 | #280 | 0.70 |
| 2018 | 1,280 | #276 | 0.70 |
| 2017 | 1,273 | #284 | 0.69 |
| 2016 | 1,447 | #252 | 0.76 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,368 | #266 | 0.71 |
| 2014 | 1,328 | #275 | 0.69 |
| 2013 | 1,483 | #243 | 0.78 |
| 2012 | 1,318 | #268 | 0.69 |
| 2011 | 1,311 | #264 | 0.69 |
| 2010 | 1,319 | #263 | 0.69 |
| 2009 | 1,389 | #250 | 0.70 |
| 2008 | 1,388 | #255 | 0.68 |
| 2007 | 969 | #329 | 0.47 |
| 2006 | 787 | #380 | 0.38 |
| 2005 | 308 | #680 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 228 | #791 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 166 | #968 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 131 | #1,112 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,440 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 77 | #1,550 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 67 | #1,603 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 57 | #1,766 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,027 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,073 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 56 | #1,621 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 53 | #1,687 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 43 | #1,908 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 36 | #2,130 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 44 | #1,797 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 65 | #1,379 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 35 | #2,029 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 40 | #1,732 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 42 | #1,636 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,790 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 29 | #1,977 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,168 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,282 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 26 | #2,062 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,584 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,739 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,788 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,581 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,063 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,430 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,272 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,563 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,135 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,260 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 22 | #1,923 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 30 | #1,546 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,095 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,415 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,025 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,807 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,281 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,556 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 18 | #1,908 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 27 | #1,518 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 25 | #1,606 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 18 | #1,916 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,324 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,665 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,051 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,822 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,956 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,735 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,814 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,063 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,367 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,157 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,272 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,315 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,336 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,884 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,843 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,078 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,609 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,114 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,289 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,293 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #2,961 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #3,943 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,211 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,434 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,390 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,166 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,414 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 8 | #2,990 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,566 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,136 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,480 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,594 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,089 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 8 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 7 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1887 | 7 | #760 | 0.07 |
| 1886 | 6 | #856 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 5 | #959 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cash a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cash has been given almost only to boys: 135 girls in 104 years of records.
Girls and boys named Cash: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cash, and how old are they?
27,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 27,840 Americans ever recorded as Cash. The median Cash alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 19,369 people named Cash (182 women and girls, 19,187 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,271 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 120 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 209 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 564 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,560 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 16,900 |
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 Cash born?
The states with the most babies named Cash are Texas, California and Florida, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 127 | #301 | 1.2× |
| California | 99 | #353 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 76 | #273 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 45 | #275 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 45 | #263 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 44 | #279 | 0.8× |
| Utah | 37 | #143 | 1.8× |
| Arizona | 36 | #226 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 36 | #277 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 35 | #255 | 0.9× |
Where Cash is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cash is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 2.2 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 Cash 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 45,489 babies since 1880, Cash is the most given (61% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,188 of their 2,394 babies (50%), the second most given that year.
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 Cash
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 Cash and names like it
- Compare Cash and KashBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCash peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cash since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Cash: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Cash.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cash alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.