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Kash vs Kassidi

American parents have registered 17,649 Kashes since 1880, against 1,241 Kassidis. Kash is still ahead, with 1,206 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kash Kassidi

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 61 years in which either name was published, Kash for 45 years and Kassidi for 16 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Kash Kassidi
Total US births 17,6491,241
Most in one year 1,51061
Babies in 2025 1,20615
Estimated living today 17,0001,200
Median age today 619
Peak year 20211998
Best rank 240th boys2,307th girls
Rank in 2025 286th7,133rd
First recorded 19161983
Girls / boys 282 / 17,3671,241 / 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 Kassidis alive today are over 19; half the Kashes are over 6. That is 13 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: Kash and Kassidi.