Cash

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 1,270 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
1,270
the US, 2017
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#287
up from #316
UK popularity
#2014
12 babies

How Cash has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#226#285#343201520202025#287

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#266
2016#253
2017#285
2018#276
2019#280
2020#263
2021#253
2022#263
2023#288
2024#316
2025#287

Cash by the numbers

In 2025, 12 babies in England and Wales were named Cash. In the US, 1,270 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 1,480 babies in 2013, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Cash

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cash. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Cassshe who entangles men; form of Cassandra29 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Casa form of Cassandra or Cassius8 in the US (2017)
  • Case439 in the US (2017)
  • Clash6 in the US (2017)
  • Crash6 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Cash

Names that are said the same way as Cash, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Kash950 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Cash

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