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Kash vs Kasie

American parents have registered 17,649 Kashes since 1880, against 4,223 Kasies. Kash is still ahead, with 1,206 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kash Kasie

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 71 years in which either name was published, Kasie for 37 years and Kash for 34 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kash Kasie
Total US births 17,6494,223
Most in one year 1,510216
Babies in 2025 1,2069
Estimated living today 17,0004,100
Median age today 635
Peak year 20211987
Best rank 240th boys810th girls
Rank in 2025 286th10,107th
First recorded 19161963
Girls / boys 282 / 17,3674,202 / 21

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 Kasies alive today are over 35; half the Kashes are over 6. That is 29 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kash Kasie
England and Wales 284197
Scotland 156

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kash and Kasie.