Cash

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Cash is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Singapore it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from OFr casse ‘box, chest to keep wares in’; metonymic for a maker of these; first attested Mariota Chash 1277.

rarermore common
  • CACanada1 in 441◐
  • IEIreland1 in 562
  • SGSingapore1 in 574

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈305K ●

across 8 countries

#343 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
538 ●

7.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 509 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

KathyLatin · English●4.3M records
קאסיHebrew · Hebrew●89 records
카트Hangul · Korean●6 records
เคธThai · Thai●3 records
КэссиCyrillic · Russian●2 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kathy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 13 more, Cathy in PH Philippines, ES Spain, NL Netherlands and 4 more, Cassie in IN India, NZ New Zealand, MY Malaysia and Kati in FI Finland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

from OFr casse ‘box, chest to keep wares in’; metonymic for a maker of these; first attested Mariota Chash 1277

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Cash is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#120309,136300K rec.—36Kathy205
US United States#75287,8285.8M rec.1 in 1.2K288KKathy538
CA Canada#58188,483180K rec.—14Kathy221
AU Australia#118185,552171K rec.—83Kathy222
IT Italy#22939,87140K rec.—1Kathy52
PH Philippines#70929,86125K rec.——Cathy101
DE Germany#63722,73022K rec.—1Kathy114
CN China—18,84016K rec.——Kathy87
SG Singapore#1718,70819K rec.——Kathy85
IE Ireland#8116,63317K rec.—192Kathy95
RU Russia—11,05117K rec.—listedKathy38
FI Finland—10,946△3.8K rec.1 in 50912KKati18

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English265K84%
  • Spanish13K4%
  • 5.7K2%
  • Welsh3.1K1%
  • French3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English265,23484%
Spanish12,7704%
5,6632%
Welsh3,1291%
French2,9621%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Cash is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname22K records spelled Cash17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, France, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Cäsh, Cásh, Čash, Cåsh, Çash

  • Chinese surname1.8K records spelled Cash2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Canada

    Also written Cashe

  • Greek surname897 records spelled Cash6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Kash, Cas, Κας, Kas, Kaş

66 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Cash is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, A different form of Case (i).

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  • In Irish, This name, which appears frequently in mediaeval Dublin records as Cass and Casse, is still found in small numbers in the country between Tipperary and Wexford. With the prefix O, Casse is a corruption of O’Casey

    as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland

  • In French, in cash (of paying)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, cash (money)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K1900195020001.5K · 2013

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Cash in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1885–2025
Yearrecords
18855
18866
18877
18917
18938
18975
191312
19148
19157
19166
19178
19187
191914
19205
19215
19238
19246
19259
19265
19275
19288
19296
19305
19315
19328
19346
19356
19436
19446
19486
19497
19525
19539
19555
19569
19578
195810
19597
196018
196125
196227
196318
196411
19657
19669
19678
19687
19699
197030
197122
197217
197319
197415
197511
197618
197713
197817
197916
198017
198118
198226
198322
198424
198529
198618
198742
198840
198935
199065
199144
199236
199343
199453
199556
199641
199744
199857
199967
200077
200186
2002131
2003166
2004228
2005308
2006787
2007969
20081,388
20091,389
20101,319
20111,311
20121,318
20131,483
20141,328
20151,368
20161,447
20171,273
20181,280
20191,263
20201,292
20211,405
20221,310
20231,152
20241,087
20251,181

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 104 years between 1885–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000June Carter, b. 1929Johnny Cash, b. 1932Jim Cash, b. 1941Rosanne Cash, b. 1955Pat Cash, b. 1965John Carter Cash, b. 1970Swin Cash, b. 1979Aya Cash, b. 1982Future Hendrix, b. 1983Matty Cash, b. 1997
  • June Carterb. 1929USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer (1929–2003)
  • Johnny Cashb. 1932USAmerican country singer (1932–2003)
  • Jim Cashb. 1941USAmerican screenwriter (1941–2000)
  • Rosanne Cashb. 1955USAmerican singer-songwriter
  • Pat Cashb. 1965AUAustralian tennis player
  • John Carter Cashb. 1970USAmerican singer, songwriter author and producer
  • Swin Cashb. 1979USAmerican Hall of Fame basketball player
  • Aya Cashb. 1982USAmerican actress
  • Future Hendrixb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper (born 1983)
  • Matty Cashb. 1997GBPolish-English association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 43 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Cash
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201029K#1,200
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202029K#1,200
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200029K#1,123
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202019K#1,633
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.2K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020182#1,633
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2008124—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—123#1,312
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2009122—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2011107—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2013103—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)201098—

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 253 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Cash?
We estimate roughly 305 thousand people bear Cash (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Cash have the most bearers?
Cash is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled kathy.
How common is Cash compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Cash is the 120th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
What does the name Cash mean?
Recorded meaning: from OFr casse ‘box, chest to keep wares in’; metonymic for a maker of these; first attested Mariota Chash 1277
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cash” — the 120th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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