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Cash vs Casimira

American parents have registered 27,840 Cashes since 1880, against 492 Casimiras. Cash is still ahead, with 1,188 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cash against Casimira, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cash Casimira

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 116 years in which either name was published, Cash for 85 years and Casimira for 31 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Cash Casimira
Total US births 27,840492
Most in one year 1,49135
Babies in 2025 1,188under 5
Estimated living today 27,00050
Median age today 1030
Peak year 20131916
Best rank 243rd boys1,210th girls
Rank in 2025 287thunranked
First recorded 18851896
Girls / boys 135 / 27,705492 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Casimiras alive today are over 30; half the Cashes are over 10. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cash and Casimira.