Cashmere
Cashmere is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 44 boys were given it in 2025 (#15,375 among girls’ names and #2,845 among boys’, #5,688 among all names counting both); 1,354 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,330 Americans named Cashmere and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cashmere by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cashmere?
#15,375 among girls’ names, 2025
Cashmere fell from #6,509 in 2015 to #15,375 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 3.1 per million.
65 babies in 2020, the peak
Cashmere peaked in 2020, when 65 babies were given it (25 girls, #5,039 among girls’ names). The 49 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 75% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,375 | 44 | #2,845 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,549 | 42 | #2,967 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,720 | 47 | #2,742 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,033 | 42 | #2,972 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,115 | 43 | #2,869 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,039 | 40 | #2,936 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,426 | 34 | #3,359 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,135 | 24 | #4,246 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,589 | 17 | #5,324 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,057 | 29 | #3,698 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,509 | 36 | #3,161 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,187 | 28 | #3,703 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,041 | 27 | #3,767 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,215 | 24 | #4,147 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,503 | 22 | #4,386 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,349 | 24 | #4,126 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,832 | 19 | #4,947 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,817 | 21 | #4,561 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,141 | 18 | #5,024 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,556 | 12 | #6,519 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,270 | 10 | #7,191 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,090 | 6 | #10,154 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,854 | 6 | #9,763 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,114 | 9 | #7,124 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,673 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,812 | 6 | #9,251 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,311 | 5 | #10,123 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,169 | 5 | #9,830 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,531 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,316 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,225 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,025 | 6 | #7,912 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,574 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,700 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,021 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,171 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,324 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,787 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,452 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,857 | 6 | #6,039 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,254 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,495 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 5 | #4,391 |
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 Cashmere a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,354 Americans recorded as Cashmere, 51% are girls and 49% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cashmere: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cashmere, and how old are they?
1,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,354 Americans ever recorded as Cashmere. The median Cashmere alive today is 14 years old; half are between 6 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 851 people named Cashmere (500 women and girls, 351 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,008 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 203 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 473 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 657 |
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cashmere
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 Cashmere and names like it
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- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Cashmere.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cashmere alive today were born 2013-2025.
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