Cash

28,715 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cash in the 2020 census, making it the 1,200th most common in the country. That is about one person in 10,400.

By the numbers

People: 28,715
Rank: 1,200th
How common: 1 in 10,400
Per 100,000: 9.6

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Variant of Case. In the US adopted by German immigrants named Kirch and Kirsch.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cash described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 75.2%
Black, not Hispanic 15.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Cash

Johnny Cash (1932–2003)American country singer
June Carter Cash (1929–2003)American singer
Tommy Cash (born 1991)Estonian rapper, singer, producer and visual artist
Pat Cash (born 1965)Australian tennis player
Matty Cash (born 1997)Polish-English association football player
Aya Cash (born 1982)American actress
Swin Cash (born 1979)American Hall of Fame basketball player
Tabatha Cash (born 1973)French pornographic actress of Asian descent

People named Cash with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cash

Also a first name

Cash has been given to 27,840 American babies as a first name since 1885, peaking in 2013. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.