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 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#129 · 1 in 464
- Louisiana#148 · 1 in 544
- Montana#169 · 1 in 515
- Idaho#184 · 1 in 598
- Iowa#199 · 1 in 756
Best ever in a state: #72 in Mississippi, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #129 | 28 | 1 in 464 |
| Louisiana | #148 | 42 | 1 in 544 |
| Montana | #169 | 7 | 1 in 515 |
| Idaho | #184 | 13 | 1 in 598 |
| Iowa | #199 | 19 | 1 in 756 |
| Kentucky | #202 | 26 | 1 in 805 |
| Arkansas | #209 | 19 | 1 in 712 |
| North Dakota | #212 | 6 | 1 in 649 |
| Georgia | #214 | 57 | 1 in 916 |
| Missouri | #218 | 35 | 1 in 867 |
| District of Columbia | #233 | 5 | 1 in 789 |
| Maryland | #238 | 25 | 1 in 1,055 |
| Oklahoma | #245 | 21 | 1 in 896 |
| Indiana | #247 | 34 | 1 in 999 |
| Alabama | #251 | 22 | 1 in 1,028 |
| Nevada | #263 | 13 | 1 in 1,013 |
| Utah | #267 | 19 | 1 in 1,026 |
| West Virginia | #271 | 7 | 1 in 1,079 |
| Texas | #295 | 128 | 1 in 1,366 |
| Kansas | #300 | 12 | 1 in 1,212 |
| Nebraska | #302 | 8 | 1 in 1,176 |
| Colorado | #314 | 19 | 1 in 1,358 |
| Virginia | #316 | 27 | 1 in 1,509 |
| Ohio | #318 | 38 | 1 in 1,508 |
| Tennessee | #321 | 24 | 1 in 1,479 |
| North Carolina | #332 | 32 | 1 in 1,567 |
| Oregon | #332 | 12 | 1 in 1,385 |
| South Carolina | #334 | 14 | 1 in 1,492 |
| Washington | #345 | 22 | 1 in 1,568 |
| Arizona | #348 | 22 | 1 in 1,554 |
| Florida | #357 | 50 | 1 in 1,917 |
| Pennsylvania | #358 | 29 | 1 in 1,975 |
| Connecticut | #365 | 7 | 1 in 1,983 |
| Wisconsin | #377 | 14 | 1 in 1,838 |
| California | #389 | 91 | 1 in 2,269 |
| Michigan | #412 | 22 | 1 in 2,086 |
| Illinois | #439 | 25 | 1 in 2,387 |
| Minnesota | #507 | 10 | 1 in 2,667 |
| New Jersey | #603 | 10 | 1 in 4,017 |
| New York | #831 | 15 | 1 in 6,383 |
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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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 58,658 of them was named Kash, which outranked 74.3% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,562Zephyr30
- #4,562Zhara30
- #4,562Zivah30
- #4,662Kash29
- #4,662Adalene29
- #4,662Adamari29
- #4,662Ahaana29
- #4,768Aaralyn28
- #4,768Aitanna28
- #4,768Ajla28
Tied with 105 names at #4,662; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 1,731 of them was named Kash, which outranked 97.7% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).