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Cash vs Cassidi

American parents have registered 27,840 Cashes since 1880, against 863 Cassidis. Cash is still ahead, with 1,188 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cash Cassidi

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

Cash has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1885 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Cash had 44 and Cassidi had 40.

Side by side

  Cash Cassidi
Total US births 27,840863
Most in one year 1,49151
Babies in 2025 1,188under 5
Estimated living today 27,000850
Median age today 1026
Peak year 20131999
Best rank 243rd boys2,703rd girls
Rank in 2025 287thunranked
First recorded 18851977
Girls / boys 135 / 27,705863 / 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 Cassidis alive today are over 26; half the Cashes are over 10. That is 16 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 Cassidi.