Kashmir
Kashmir is given to both girls and boys: 17 girls and 134 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,679 among girls’ names and #1,378 among boys’, #2,683 among all names counting both); 1,916 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,900 Americans named Kashmir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kashmir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kashmir?
#1,378 among boys’ names, 2025
Kashmir rose from #3,119 in 2015 to #1,378 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 19.3 to 78.5 per million.
200 babies in 2022, the peak
Kashmir peaked in 2022, when 200 babies were given it (180 boys, #1,152 among boys’ names). The 151 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 76% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,679 | 134 | #1,378 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,522 | 162 | #1,237 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,084 | 163 | #1,220 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,094 | 180 | #1,152 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,254 | 131 | #1,403 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,967 | 137 | #1,315 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,930 | 106 | #1,577 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,939 | 79 | #1,892 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,407 | 51 | #2,511 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,284 | 56 | #2,352 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,746 | 37 | #3,119 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,888 | 19 | #4,972 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,969 | 28 | #3,703 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,002 | 14 | #6,151 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,057 | 11 | #7,245 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,738 | 11 | #7,329 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,310 | 9 | #8,670 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,770 | 6 | #11,829 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,663 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,576 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,395 | 6 | #10,791 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,405 | 5 | #12,300 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,235 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,876 | 5 | #11,598 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,126 | 7 | #8,759 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,631 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,498 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,679 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,485 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,198 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,811 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,429 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,536 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,757 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,521 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,638 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,728 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,737 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,029 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,760 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,679 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,760 | under 5 |
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 Kashmir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,916 Americans recorded as Kashmir, 29% are girls and 71% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kashmir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kashmir, and how old are they?
1,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,916 Americans ever recorded as Kashmir. The median Kashmir alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 1,293 people named Kashmir (668 women and girls, 625 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 936 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 152 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,510 |
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 Kashmir born?
The states with the most babies named Kashmir are Texas, Georgia and Illinois, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15 | #1,324 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 12 | #768 | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 11 | #776 | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 10 | #485 | 2.1× |
| New York | 8 | #1,359 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #975 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,738 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,169 | 0.6× |
| California | 5 | #2,639 | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,175 | 0.6× |
Where Kashmir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kashmir is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1982 it was given 1.7 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 Kashmir 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,142 babies since 1880, Kashmir is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 151 of their 176 babies (86%), 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 Kashmir
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 Kashmir and names like it
- Compare Kashmir and CashmirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKashmir peaked in 2022.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kashmir since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Kashmir.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kashmir alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.