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Cash vs Cassiel

American parents have registered 27,840 Cashes since 1880, against 543 Cassiels. Cash is still ahead, with 1,188 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cash Cassiel

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 1999, when Cash had 67 and Cassiel had 5.

Side by side

  Cash Cassiel
Total US births 27,840543
Most in one year 1,49154
Babies in 2025 1,18854
Estimated living today 27,000540
Median age today 107
Peak year 20132025
Best rank 243rd boys2,480th boys
Rank in 2025 287th2,480th
First recorded 18851999
Girls / boys 135 / 27,70569 / 474

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 Cashes alive today are over 10; half the Cassiels are over 7. That is 3 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 Cassiel
England and Wales 33539

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 Cassiel.