Kash
Kash was given to 1,183 boys in 2025, #286 among boys’ names; 17,649 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,500 Americans named Kash and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kash by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kash mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kash is “a male given name of modern usage.”
Re-spelling of Cash.
/kæʃ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kash?
#286 among boys’ names, 2025
Kash rose from #382 in 2015 to #286 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.44 to 0.69 per 1,000.
1,510 babies in 2021, the peak
Kash peaked in 2021, when 1,510 babies were given it (1,481 boys, #240 among boys’ names). The 1,206 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 80% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,183 | #286 | 0.69 |
| 2024 | 1,148 | #293 | 0.67 |
| 2023 | 1,327 | #260 | 0.78 |
| 2022 | 1,446 | #244 | 0.83 |
| 2021 | 1,481 | #240 | 0.85 |
| 2020 | 1,380 | #255 | 0.80 |
| 2019 | 1,183 | #289 | 0.66 |
| 2018 | 1,049 | #320 | 0.58 |
| 2017 | 943 | #355 | 0.51 |
| 2016 | 908 | #365 | 0.48 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 844 | #382 | 0.44 |
| 2014 | 841 | #373 | 0.44 |
| 2013 | 725 | #408 | 0.38 |
| 2012 | 507 | #520 | 0.27 |
| 2011 | 381 | #622 | 0.20 |
| 2010 | 413 | #603 | 0.22 |
| 2009 | 327 | #723 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 286 | #776 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 167 | #1,093 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 140 | #1,200 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 84 | #1,623 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 67 | #1,842 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 63 | #1,874 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 44 | #2,352 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,762 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,849 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,317 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,105 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 28 | #2,786 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,335 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,491 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,010 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,919 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,529 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,913 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,385 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,157 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,603 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 15 | #3,271 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,272 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,164 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,268 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,779 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,212 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,693 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,005 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,496 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,962 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,247 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,831 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,344 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,364 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,971 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,806 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,733 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,944 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,076 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,281 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,692 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kash a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 17,649 Americans recorded as Kash, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 23 girls and 1,183 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kash: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kash, and how old are they?
17,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 17,649 Americans ever recorded as Kash. The median Kash alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 8,175 people named Kash (208 women and girls, 7,967 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,792 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 33 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 41 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 191 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,600 |
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 Kash born?
The states with the most babies named Kash are Texas, California and Florida, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 148 | #268 | 1.0× |
| California | 83 | #397 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 82 | #252 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 68 | #183 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 48 | #262 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 40 | #308 | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 38 | #134 | 2.2× |
| Kentucky | 36 | #152 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | #323 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 34 | #264 | 0.9× |
Where Kash is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kash is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1916 it was given 2.3 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 Kash 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, Kash is the second most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,206 of their 2,394 babies (50%), the 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 Kash
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 Kash and names like it
- Compare Kash and CashBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKash peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kash since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Kash.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kash alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.