Meaning not yet researched.
Cash: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,181 in 2025. Its best rank was #243 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #243 in 2013; #287 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Cash in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#287 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #243.
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Cash: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,181 boys in 2025. Peak: #243 in 2013 · most boys in one year: 1,483 (2013).
In 2025, 1,181 US boys were named Cash, making it the 287th most common boys’ name of the year, up 29 places from #316 in 2024. That is 94 more than the 1,087 boys named Cash in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #243, reached in 2013. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,483. For comparison, it was #266 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cash in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 5 babies. In all, 27,840 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 13,460 babies named Cash.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,690 US boys were named Cash; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,447. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,446 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cash ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #100 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kash (17,649 babies since 1880), Case (9,926 babies since 1880) and Kase (4,849 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cass, Cas and Caz are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cass (1,993), Cas (181), Caz (165), Cashe (126), Kashe (124), Cayse (95), Kass (70), Kas (49), Kaash (38).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cash in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 12 | #100 | #131 |
| Utah | 37 | #143 | #172 |
| New Hampshire | 7 | #188 | — |
| Idaho | 14 | #189 | #126 |
| Nevada | 16 | #191 | #278 |
| Arkansas | 19 | #191 | #134 |
| Iowa | 20 | #200 | #190 |
| Missouri | 32 | #220 | #154 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #221 | — |
| Oklahoma | 21 | #223 | #153 |
| Minnesota | 28 | #226 | #270 |
| Arizona | 36 | #226 | #247 |
| Kentucky | 24 | #228 | #257 |
| Nebraska | 11 | #230 | #156 |
| Colorado | 27 | #239 | #208 |
| New Mexico | 8 | #242 | #320 |
| Indiana | 34 | #243 | #212 |
| Oregon | 17 | #249 | #184 |
| Tennessee | 35 | #255 | #275 |
| Pennsylvania | 45 | #263 | #268 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #264 | #251 |
| Florida | 76 | #273 | #351 |
| Ohio | 45 | #275 | #294 |
| Michigan | 36 | #277 | #323 |
| Georgia | 44 | #279 | #282 |
| Washington | 26 | #288 | #250 |
| Louisiana | 17 | #296 | #316 |
| Connecticut | 10 | #300 | — |
| Kansas | 12 | #301 | #205 |
| Texas | 127 | #301 | #228 |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #324 | #207 |
| Alabama | 16 | #338 | #315 |
| North Carolina | 33 | #348 | #332 |
| Illinois | 30 | #350 | #329 |
| South Carolina | 15 | #351 | #247 |
| California | 99 | #353 | #257 |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #364 | #640 |
| Maryland | 14 | #365 | #425 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #425 | #313 |
| Virginia | 18 | #436 | #398 |
| New York | 33 | #493 | #1,078 |
| New Jersey | 14 | #527 | #590 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,167 | 1,181 | #287 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,686 | 1,087 | #316 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,482 | 1,152 | #288 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,558 | 1,310 | #264 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,695 | 1,405 | #253 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,065 | 1,292 | #264 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,164 | 1,263 | #280 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,610 | 1,280 | #276 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,113 | 1,273 | #284 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,488 | 1,447 | #252 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,368 | #266 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,349 | 1,328 | #275 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,216 | 1,483 | #243 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,347 | 1,318 | #268 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,294 | 1,311 | #264 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,752 | 1,319 | #263 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,389 | #250 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,388 | #255 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,213 | 969 | #329 |
| 2006 | — | — | 787 | #380 |
| 2005 | — | — | 308 | #680 |
| 2004 | — | — | 228 | #791 |
| 2003 | — | — | 166 | #969 |
| 2002 | — | — | 131 | #1,113 |
| 2001 | — | — | 86 | #1,444 |
| 2000 | — | — | 77 | #1,554 |
| 1999 | — | — | 67 | #1,606 |
| 1998 | — | — | 57 | #1,769 |
| 1997 | — | — | 44 | #2,030 |
| 1996 | — | — | 41 | #2,078 |
| 1995 | — | — | 56 | #1,626 |
| 1994 | — | — | 53 | #1,692 |
| 1993 | — | — | 43 | #1,913 |
| 1992 | — | — | 36 | #2,135 |
| 1991 | — | — | 44 | #1,803 |
| 1990 | — | — | 65 | #1,384 |
| 1989 | — | — | 35 | #2,034 |
| 1988 | — | — | 40 | #1,737 |
| 1987 | — | — | 42 | #1,638 |
| 1986 | — | — | 18 | #2,793 |
| 1985 | — | — | 29 | #1,978 |
| 1984 | — | — | 24 | #2,169 |
| 1983 | — | — | 22 | #2,283 |
| 1982 | — | — | 26 | #2,063 |
| 1981 | — | — | 18 | #2,585 |
| 1980 | — | — | 17 | #2,740 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,789 |
| 1978 | — | — | 17 | #2,582 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,064 |
| 1976 | — | — | 18 | #2,431 |
| 1975 | — | — | 11 | #3,274 |
| 1974 | — | — | 15 | #2,565 |
| 1973 | — | — | 19 | #2,137 |
| 1972 | — | — | 17 | #2,260 |
| 1971 | — | — | 22 | #1,924 |
| 1970 | — | — | 30 | #1,547 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,096 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,416 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,026 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,808 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,282 |
| 1964 | — | — | 11 | #2,557 |
| 1963 | — | — | 18 | #1,909 |
| 1962 | — | — | 27 | #1,519 |
| 1961 | — | — | 25 | #1,607 |
| 1960 | — | — | 18 | #1,917 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,325 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,666 |
| 1957 | — | — | 8 | #3,052 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,823 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #3,957 |
| 1953 | — | — | 9 | #2,736 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,816 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,064 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,369 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,158 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,273 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,315 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,338 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #2,884 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #3,845 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,080 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,611 |
| 1928 | — | — | 8 | #3,116 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,291 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,295 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #2,963 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #3,945 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,213 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,436 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,392 |
| 1919 | — | — | 14 | #2,167 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,415 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #2,991 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,567 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,137 |
| 1914 | — | — | 8 | #2,481 |
| 1913 | — | — | 12 | #1,595 |
| 1897 | — | — | 5 | #1,090 |
| 1893 | — | — | 8 | #778 |
| 1891 | — | — | 7 | #781 |
| 1887 | — | — | 7 | #760 |
| 1886 | — | — | 6 | #856 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #960 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).