Cash
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OFr casse ‘box, chest to keep wares in’; metonymic for a maker of these; first attested Mariota Chash 1277
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kæʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cash is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 32nd most common given name.
- CNChina≈1 in 552as Kathy(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 594as Kathy
- CACanada≈1 in 643as Kathy
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cash itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #179 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 594 (measured from records)
- 1 in 509 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500,000 named Kathy, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland, as Kati
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kathy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 more and Cathy in CN China.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
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 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cash counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈2,500,000 est. | ≈1 in 552 | — | Cathy | 76 |
| US United States | #76 | 288,053as Kathy | 1 in 1.2K | 288K | Kathy | 594 |
| GB United Kingdom | #134 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 988 | 36 | Kathy | 269 |
| CA Canada | #49 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 643 | 14 | Kathy | 286 |
| IT Italy | #195 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 1 | Kathy | 54 |
| FI Finland | — | 10,946as Kati | 1 in 509 | 12K | — | 17 |
| IE Ireland | #53 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 594 | 192 | Kathy | 102 |
| SG Singapore | #32 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 720 | — | Kathy | 89 |
| NZ New Zealand | #77 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 678 | 11 | Kathy | 120 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 29K | #1,200 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 29K | #1,200 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 29K | #1,123 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #40,107 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cash mean, and where does it come from?
- from OFr casse ‘box, chest to keep wares in’; metonymic for a maker of these; first attested Mariota Chash 1277 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Cash have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 million people named Kathy in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cash most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Cash itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 509 people named Kati.
- What are other forms of the name Cash?
- In the etymology graph, Kash is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Cash?
- In the United States, the national register counted 288,053 people named Kathy in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Cash compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Cash is the 32nd most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Cash?
- A machine transcription gives /kæʃ/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Cash?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cashThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 32nd most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.