Meaning not yet researched.
Kash: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,183 in 2025. Its best rank was #240 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #240 in 2021; #286 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Kash in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#286 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #240.
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Kash: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,183 boys in 2025. Peak: #240 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 1,481 (2021).
In 2025, 1,183 US boys were named Kash, making it the 286th most common boys’ name of the year, up 7 places from #293 in 2024. That is 35 more than the 1,148 boys named Kash in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #240, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,481. For comparison, it was #382 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kash in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 6 babies. In all, 17,649 US babies have been given the name, 1.6% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 8,100 babies named Kash.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,048 US boys were named Kash; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 1,481. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,444 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kash ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #134 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cash (27,840 babies since 1880), Case (9,926 babies since 1880) and Kase (4,849 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaz, Kayse and Kais 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: Kaz (725), Kayse (516), Kais (423), Kaos (93), Kaze (90), Kazz (36), Kaise (34), Kaiz (5).
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 Kash 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 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 38 | #134 | #198 |
| Hawaii | 8 | #134 | #253 |
| Arkansas | 26 | #139 | #298 |
| Kentucky | 36 | #152 | #289 |
| Mississippi | 19 | #169 | #263 |
| Oklahoma | 29 | #171 | #155 |
| West Virginia | 11 | #177 | #218 |
| Georgia | 68 | #183 | #274 |
| Kansas | 22 | #183 | #232 |
| South Dakota | 7 | #209 | — |
| Utah | 26 | #209 | #298 |
| Nebraska | 12 | #220 | #173 |
| Idaho | 12 | #225 | #160 |
| Alabama | 25 | #229 | #239 |
| Missouri | 30 | #242 | #248 |
| Florida | 82 | #252 | #470 |
| Indiana | 32 | #261 | #306 |
| Ohio | 48 | #262 | #452 |
| Tennessee | 34 | #264 | #394 |
| Texas | 148 | #268 | #366 |
| Iowa | 15 | #268 | #285 |
| South Carolina | 21 | #270 | #506 |
| Colorado | 24 | #274 | #450 |
| North Carolina | 40 | #308 | #444 |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | #323 | #465 |
| Virginia | 26 | #323 | #563 |
| Arizona | 23 | #338 | #542 |
| Oregon | 12 | #339 | #474 |
| Connecticut | 9 | #348 | #493 |
| Maryland | 15 | #356 | #333 |
| Washington | 20 | #373 | #419 |
| California | 83 | #397 | #462 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #399 | #435 |
| Michigan | 22 | #400 | #518 |
| Nevada | 7 | #422 | #231 |
| Illinois | 26 | #423 | #430 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #457 | #465 |
| New York | 28 | #567 | #1,117 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #681 | #412 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #748 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #802 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,480 | 1,183 | #286 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,084 | 1,148 | #293 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,063 | 1,327 | #260 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,728 | 1,446 | #244 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,680 | 1,481 | #240 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,092 | 1,380 | #255 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,100 | 1,183 | #289 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,711 | 1,049 | #320 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,945 | 943 | #355 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,543 | 908 | #365 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,221 | 844 | #382 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,846 | 841 | #373 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,312 | 725 | #408 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,790 | 507 | #520 |
| 2011 | — | — | 381 | #622 |
| 2010 | — | — | 413 | #603 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,044 | 327 | #723 |
| 2008 | — | — | 286 | #776 |
| 2007 | — | — | 167 | #1,093 |
| 2006 | — | — | 140 | #1,200 |
| 2005 | — | — | 84 | #1,625 |
| 2004 | — | — | 67 | #1,846 |
| 2003 | — | — | 63 | #1,877 |
| 2002 | — | — | 44 | #2,356 |
| 2001 | — | — | 34 | #2,767 |
| 2000 | — | — | 21 | #3,855 |
| 1999 | — | — | 24 | #3,321 |
| 1998 | — | — | 17 | #4,109 |
| 1997 | — | — | 28 | #2,790 |
| 1996 | — | — | 21 | #3,341 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,497 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #4,016 |
| 1993 | — | — | 16 | #3,925 |
| 1992 | — | — | 18 | #3,535 |
| 1991 | — | — | 15 | #3,920 |
| 1990 | — | — | 18 | #3,391 |
| 1989 | — | — | 13 | #4,163 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,608 |
| 1987 | — | — | 15 | #3,275 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,278 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,169 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,272 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,783 |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,414 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,214 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,927 | 11 | #3,695 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #4,007 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,498 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,963 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,248 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,832 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,345 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,838 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,365 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #2,972 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,807 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,734 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,946 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,078 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,282 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,693 |
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).