Kash vs Kashia
American parents have registered 17,649 Kashes since 1880, against 623 Kashias. Kash is still ahead, with 1,206 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Kash Kashia
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 68 years in which either name was published, Kash for 49 years and Kashia for 19 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1916–1966 Kash ahead
- 1973–1992 Kashia ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1993–2025 Kash ahead, apart from one short spell
7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Kash | Kashia | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 17,649 | 623 |
| Most in one year | 1,510 | 42 |
| Babies in 2025 | 1,206 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 17,000 | 610 |
| Median age today | 6 | 29 |
| Peak year | 2021 | 1998 |
| Best rank | 240th boys | 3,015th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 286th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1916 | 1968 |
| Girls / boys | 282 / 17,367 | 623 / 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 Kashias alive today are over 29; half the Kashes are over 6. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kash and Kashia.