How Many People Are Named Cash?

27,332

people named Cash are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 12,504 people in the US has this name

Based on 27,840 babies named Cash in Social Security records from 1885 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,348

💎 Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#571

See the top 100

Peak Year

2013

1,491 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: KASH
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

From an English occupational surname for a box maker, derived from Norman French casse meaning "case". A famous bearer of the surname was American musician Johnny Cash (1932-2003).

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.5%
Male
99.5%

Almost all of the babies given the name Cash (99.5%) were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Cash alive today is about 11 years old, and 97% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 15 in 2025.

Under 30 26,466
96.8%
30 to 59 730
2.7%
60 and over 136
0.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Cash first appears in the records in 1885 and was given most often in 2013, to 1,491 babies. In 2025, 1,188 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1885 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Cash has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #243, in 2013. In 2025 it ranked #287.

Boys
Rank in 2025#287
Best rank#243 (2013)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#270 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Cash alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Cash were born in California than in any other state: about 3,383 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Cash was given 3.5 times as often in Montana, 2.6 times in Oklahoma and 2.5 times in Idaho.

California 3,383
Texas 3,320
Florida 1,104
Arizona 879
Ohio 820
Missouri 810
Oklahoma 806
Washington 767
Utah 724
Georgia 715
Illinois 696
Pennsylvania 684
Indiana 665
Colorado 648
Michigan 635
Tennessee 613
North Carolina 589
Minnesota 514
Arkansas 457
New York 451
Iowa 451
Oregon 447
Wisconsin 440
Kentucky 425
Kansas 420
Virginia 406
Louisiana 357
Nevada 353
Idaho 321
Nebraska 309
Alabama 304
South Carolina 279
Maryland 260
New Jersey 212
Montana 210
Massachusetts 197
West Virginia 172
Mississippi 161
New Mexico 155
South Dakota 127
North Dakota 124
Connecticut 68
Hawaii 56
Wyoming 41
Maine 30
Alaska 23
New Hampshire 17
Delaware 15
Rhode Island 7

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