Cash

#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #287 for boys in 2025, 1,181 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time

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Peak · boys
2013 · 1,483 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
27,705
since 1885

Cash over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Cash has never cracked the top 200 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201891peak #243, 2013boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#11,9327#2871,181
2024#9,55610#3161,087
2023#10,3129#2881,152
2022#10,3839#2641,310
2021#9,56210#2531,405
2020#7,96913#2641,292
2019#13,7996#2801,263
2018#11,4278#2761,280
2017#9,94310#2841,273
2016#8,39313#2521,447
2015—#2661,368
2014#13,0697#2751,328
2013#11,9698#2431,483
2012#14,9626#2681,318
2011#16,7645#2641,311
2010#13,4487#2631,319
2009—#2501,389
2008—#2541,388
2007#13,9247#329969
2006—#380787
2005—#680308
2004—#790228
2003—#969166
2002—#1,112131
2001—#1,44186
2000—#1,55277
1999—#1,60467
1998—#1,76857
1997—#2,02444
1996—#2,07341
1995—#1,62356
1994—#1,68953
1993—#1,90743
1992—#2,12836
1991—#1,79844
1990—#1,38365
1989—#2,02735
1988—#1,73140
1987—#1,63642
1986—#2,77918
1985—#1,97529
1984—#2,15924
1983—#2,27222
1982—#2,05926
1981—#2,56918
1980—#2,72917
1979—#2,77716
1978—#2,56817
1977—#3,03713
1976—#2,41718
1975—#3,24611
1974—#2,54915
1973—#2,12419
1972—#2,24317
1971—#1,91622
1970—#1,54630
1969—#3,0629
1968—#3,3657
1967—#2,9858
1966—#2,7849
1965—#3,2447
1964—#2,54611
1963—#1,90218
1962—#1,51527
1961—#1,60225
1960—#1,91018
1959—#3,2907
1958—#2,64210
1957—#3,0248
1956—#2,7989
1955—#3,8865
1954——
1953—#2,7099
1952—#3,7345
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1949—#3,0197
1948—#3,3166
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1944—#3,1096
1943—#3,2316
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1935—#3,2526
1934—#3,2776
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1932—#2,8498
1931—#3,7635
1930—#4,0015
1929—#3,5596
1928—#3,0768
1927—#4,2105
1926—#4,2015
1925—#2,9369
1924—#3,8676
1923—#3,1758
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1921—#4,3225
1920—#4,2865
1919—#2,15214
1918—#3,3687
1917—#2,9568
1916—#3,5166
1915—#3,0827
1914—#2,4578
1913—#1,58012
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1897—#1,0575
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1893—#7688
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1891—#7667
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1887—#7527
1886—#8456
1885—#9365
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First appearance
1885

The first year at least five boys were named Cash! It came in at #936, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1888–1890, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Cash is popular in 1891

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Cash
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 29 spots since 2024 (#316 → #287)
  • 23 spots since 2020 (#264 → #287)
  • 21 spots since 2015 (#266 → #287)
  • Biggest jump: 300 spots in 2006 (#680 → #380)
  • Biggest drop: 32 spots in 2014 (#243 → #275)
Rise & fade · boys
128 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1885
  • Peaked 2013 at #243 (1,483 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 28 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 2003–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 1,245
  • Highest: 1 in 1,245 boys born in 2021 were named Cash (0.08%)
  • Latest: 1 in 1,446 boys born in 2025 (0.07%)
  • Its best rank, #243 in 2013, was only 1 in 1,276 (0.08%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 48.3% of all boys named Cash (13,390) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s18#752 (1887)#844
1890s20#766 (1891)#864
1900s0——
1910s62#1,580 (1913)#2,730
1920s57#2,936 (1925)#3,737
1930s30#2,849 (1932)#3,428
1940s25#3,019 (1949)#3,169
1950s53#2,642 (1958)#3,155
1960s139#1,515 (1962)#2,492
1970s178#1,546 (1970)#2,442
1980s271#1,636 (1987)#2,194
1990s506#1,383 (1990)#1,800
2000s5,529#250 (2009)#776
2010s13,390#243 (2013)#267
2020s7,427#253 (2021)#279

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Cash in 1891

boys
#766
7 births · 1 in 14,456 boys

Top boys' names in 1891

  1. #1John7,680
  2. #2William6,763
  3. #3James4,516
  4. #4George3,931
  5. #5Charles3,640
  6. #6Frank2,652
  7. #7Joseph2,572
  8. #8Robert2,240
  9. #9Harry2,132
  10. #10Henry2,049
  11. #766Cash7
More about 1891

boys

101,191 boys got a published name in 1891; 1 in 14,456 of them was named Cash, which outranked 32.0% of the 1,127 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 37.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cash
  1. #700Wendell8
  2. #700Whit8
  3. #700Zeb8
  4. #766Cash7
  5. #766Ace7
  6. #766Ada7
  7. #766Almon7
  8. #841Adlai6
  9. #841Alec6
  10. #841Alger6

Tied with 74 names at #766; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1890
Risers
  1. ↑ 487Colonel#884 → #397
  2. ↑ 470Mahlon#994 → #524
  3. ↑ 457Hezekiah#884 → #427
  4. ↑ 430Ruby#994 → #564
  5. ↑ 397Essie#994 → #597
Fallers
  1. ↓ 574Pierce#389 → #963
  2. ↓ 505Omar#458 → #963
  3. ↓ 452Benton#511 → #963
  4. ↓ 430Ivory#533 → #963
  5. ↓ 430Pleasant#533 → #963

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1891 →