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Cash vs Cassondra

American parents have registered 27,840 Cashes since 1880, against 4,310 Cassondras. Cash is still ahead, with 1,188 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cash Cassondra

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 107 years in which either name was published, Cash for 65 years and Cassondra for 42 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Cash Cassondra
Total US births 27,8404,310
Most in one year 1,491313
Babies in 2025 1,188under 5
Estimated living today 27,0004,200
Median age today 1036
Peak year 20131989
Best rank 243rd boys655th girls
Rank in 2025 287thunranked
First recorded 18851943
Girls / boys 135 / 27,7054,310 / 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 Cassondras alive today are over 36; half the Cashes are over 10. That is 26 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 Cassondra.