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Kasen vs Kashmere

American parents have registered 11,538 Kasens since 1880, against 1,109 Kashmeres. Kasen is still ahead, with 628 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kasen against Kashmere, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kasen Kashmere

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 39 years in which either name was published, Kasen for 33 years and Kashmere for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kasen Kashmere
Total US births 11,5381,109
Most in one year 74282
Babies in 2025 62874
Estimated living today 11,0001,100
Median age today 98
Peak year 20192022
Best rank 419th boys2,269th boys
Rank in 2025 483rd2,421st
First recorded 19921986
Girls / boys 124 / 11,414512 / 597

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.

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: Kasen and Kashmere.