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Cash vs Casimiro

American parents have registered 27,840 Cashes since 1880, against 1,084 Casimiros. Cash is still ahead, with 1,188 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cash Casimiro

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 121 years in which either name was published, Cash for 70 years and Casimiro for 51 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Cash Casimiro
Total US births 27,8401,084
Most in one year 1,49128
Babies in 2025 1,1886
Estimated living today 27,000610
Median age today 1047
Peak year 20131921
Best rank 243rd boys1,412th boys
Rank in 2025 287th10,695th
First recorded 18851881
Girls / boys 135 / 27,7050 / 1,084

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 Casimiros alive today are over 47; half the Cashes are over 10. That is 37 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 Casimiro.