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Cash vs Cassi

American parents have registered 27,840 Cashes since 1880, against 2,361 Cassis. Cash is still ahead, with 1,188 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cash Cassi

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 104 years in which either name was published, Cash for 78 years and Cassi for 26 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Cash Cassi
Total US births 27,8402,361
Most in one year 1,491126
Babies in 2025 1,1885
Estimated living today 27,0002,300
Median age today 1037
Peak year 20131982
Best rank 243rd boys1,117th girls
Rank in 2025 287th14,942nd
First recorded 18851959
Girls / boys 135 / 27,7052,361 / 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 Cassis 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

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.

Country Cash Cassi
England and Wales 33519

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