Cash vs Cass

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Cash Cass

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 123 years in which either name was published, Cass for 63 years and Cash for 60 years. The lead changed hands 29 times.

• 1885–1893 Cash ahead
• 1897–1924 Cass ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1928–1930 Cash ahead
• 1935–1977 Cass ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1990–2025 Cash ahead

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

Side by side

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 Casses alive today are over 37; half the Cashes are over 10. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Cash Nevada (4.0×), Utah (3.4×), Idaho (3.1×)
• Cass Michigan (6.7×), Texas (3.7×), California (2.8×)

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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