Kash
#5,410 for girls in 2025, 23 births · #286 for boys in 2025, 1,183 births
Given to boys 98.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 1,481 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 17,367since 1916
Kash over time
Rank among boys' names. Kash has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,410 | 23 | #286 | 1,183 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | #293 | 1,148 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | #260 | 1,327 |
| 2022 | #5,638 | 22 | #244 | 1,446 |
| 2021 | #4,607 | 29 | #240 | 1,481 |
| 2020 | #5,003 | 25 | #255 | 1,380 |
| 2019 | #5,041 | 26 | #289 | 1,183 |
| 2018 | #4,662 | 29 | #320 | 1,049 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | #355 | 943 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 | #365 | 908 |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 | #382 | 844 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #373 | 841 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #408 | 725 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #520 | 507 |
| 2011 | — | #622 | 381 | |
| 2010 | — | #602 | 413 | |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #722 | 327 |
| 2008 | — | #775 | 286 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,092 | 167 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,194 | 140 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,619 | 84 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,834 | 67 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,870 | 63 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,337 | 44 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,742 | 34 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,764 | 21 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,279 | 24 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,019 | 17 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,750 | 28 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,293 | 21 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,432 | 19 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,911 | 16 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,819 | 16 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,459 | 18 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,813 | 15 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,309 | 18 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,017 | 13 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,450 | 10 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,201 | 15 | |
| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #4,234 | 9 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,961 | 7 | |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | — | #3,857 | 9 | |
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| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,861 | 10 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,871 | 9 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,619 | 6 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
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| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kash! It came in at #3,516, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1921, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kash is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#117 · 1 in 459
- Kentucky#172 · 1 in 656
- Oklahoma#181 · 1 in 667
- District of Columbia#185 · 1 in 619
- Utah#196 · 1 in 753
Best ever in a state: #72 in Mississippi, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | #117 | 52 | 1 in 459 |
| Kentucky | #172 | 33 | 1 in 656 |
| Oklahoma | #181 | 29 | 1 in 667 |
| District of Columbia | #185 | 7 | 1 in 619 |
| Utah | #196 | 27 | 1 in 753 |
| South Dakota | #208 | 6 | 1 in 656 |
| Mississippi | #212 | 17 | 1 in 784 |
| Idaho | #222 | 11 | 1 in 718 |
| Nevada | #232 | 15 | 1 in 874 |
| Arkansas | #244 | 15 | 1 in 914 |
| Alabama | #246 | 23 | 1 in 994 |
| Missouri | #247 | 30 | 1 in 1,020 |
| Indiana | #269 | 30 | 1 in 1,148 |
| South Carolina | #282 | 17 | 1 in 1,235 |
| Georgia | #283 | 41 | 1 in 1,310 |
| Nebraska | #288 | 9 | 1 in 1,085 |
| West Virginia | #290 | 6 | 1 in 1,249 |
| Colorado | #303 | 21 | 1 in 1,260 |
| Kansas | #311 | 12 | 1 in 1,254 |
| Ohio | #311 | 39 | 1 in 1,496 |
| Tennessee | #329 | 24 | 1 in 1,511 |
| Texas | #342 | 102 | 1 in 1,727 |
| Maryland | #356 | 15 | 1 in 1,767 |
| Pennsylvania | #368 | 28 | 1 in 2,079 |
| North Carolina | #383 | 25 | 1 in 2,053 |
| Arizona | #384 | 19 | 1 in 1,822 |
| Wisconsin | #398 | 13 | 1 in 1,999 |
| California | #414 | 88 | 1 in 2,451 |
| Oregon | #427 | 9 | 1 in 1,931 |
| Florida | #429 | 40 | 1 in 2,417 |
| Washington | #437 | 17 | 1 in 2,091 |
| Illinois | #462 | 24 | 1 in 2,580 |
| Iowa | #463 | 7 | 1 in 2,123 |
| Virginia | #467 | 15 | 1 in 2,717 |
| Michigan | #476 | 17 | 1 in 2,731 |
| Minnesota | #542 | 9 | 1 in 3,008 |
| New Jersey | #714 | 8 | 1 in 5,107 |
| New York | #828 | 15 | 1 in 6,504 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kash
- 7 spots since 2024 (#293 → #286)
- 31 spots since 2020 (#255 → #286)
- 96 spots since 2015 (#382 → #286)
- Biggest jump: 317 spots in 2008 (#1,092 → #775)
- Biggest drop: 33 spots in 2024 (#260 → #293)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2021 at #240 (1,481 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 2008–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,181 boys born in 2021 were named Kash (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,444 boys born in 2025 (0.07%)
- 45.9% of all boys named Kash (7,965) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | #3,516 (1916) | #3,749 |
| 1920s | 6 | #3,872 (1922) | #3,872 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,679 (1934) | #3,679 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 12 | #3,559 (1958) | #3,589 |
| 1960s | 46 | #2,861 (1969) | #3,576 |
| 1970s | 26 | #3,569 (1979) | #3,885 |
| 1980s | 77 | #3,201 (1987) | #4,953 |
| 1990s | 192 | #2,750 (1997) | #3,508 |
| 2000s | 1,233 | #722 (2009) | #1,795 |
| 2010s | 7,794 | #289 (2019) | #424 |
| 2020s | 7,965 | #240 (2021) | #263 |
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.
Kash in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 101,557 of them was named Kash, which outranked 63.1% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,531Zeva18
- #6,531Ziggy18
- #6,531Zuzu18
- #6,808Kash17
- #6,808Aariel17
- #6,808Abbigale17
- #6,808Addi17
- #7,092Aanika16
- #7,092Abra16
- #7,092Abrie16
Tied with 283 names at #6,808; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 1,963 of them was named Kash, which outranked 97.5% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.