Meaning not yet researched.
Kashmir: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 134 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,152 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,152 in 2022; #1,378 in 2025. About 89% of babies named Kashmir in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,378 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,152.
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Kashmir: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 134 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,152 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 180 (2022).
In 2025, 134 US boys were named Kashmir, making it the 1,378th most common boys’ name of the year, down 141 places from #1,237 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 162 boys named Kashmir in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,152, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 180. For comparison, it was #3,120 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Kashmir, making it the 6,680th most common girls’ name of the year, down 155 places from #6,525 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 18 girls named Kashmir in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,527, reached in 1991. The most girls given the name in a single year was 23, in 2015. For comparison, it was #5,748 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kashmir in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 6 babies. In all, 1,916 US babies have been given the name, 29% of them girls and 71% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,011 babies named Kashmir.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,199 US boys were named Kashmir; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 180. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,747 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kashmir ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #485 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kashmere (1,109 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cashmir, Kashmeir and Kashmier 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: Cashmir (174), Kashmeir (52), Kashmier (41), Kashmire (37), Kashmiere (15), Cashmier (6), Kashmyr (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 Kashmir 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 10 | #485 | — |
| Georgia | 12 | #768 | — |
| Illinois | 11 | #776 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #975 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,169 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,175 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,324 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,359 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,738 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,639 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,680 | 134 | #1,378 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,525 | 162 | #1,237 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,089 | 163 | #1,220 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,099 | 180 | #1,152 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,259 | 131 | #1,403 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,971 | 137 | #1,315 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,934 | 106 | #1,577 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,943 | 79 | #1,893 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,411 | 51 | #2,512 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,287 | 56 | #2,352 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,748 | 37 | #3,120 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,890 | 19 | #4,976 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,973 | 28 | #3,705 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,006 | 14 | #6,157 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,061 | 11 | #7,252 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,744 | 11 | #7,335 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,314 | 9 | #8,675 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,774 | 6 | #11,836 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,669 | — | — |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,582 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,402 | 6 | #10,798 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,412 | 5 | #12,307 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,240 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,882 | 5 | #11,605 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,132 | 7 | #8,766 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,638 | — | — |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,505 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,686 | — | — |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,490 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,203 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,816 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,435 | — | — |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,542 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,764 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,527 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,644 | — | — |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,734 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,742 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,034 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,765 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,682 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,763 | — | — |
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).