Cashmere
#15,375 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cashmere has been given to 1,354 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #15,375 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 35 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 51% girls, 49% boys all-time.
Babies named Cashmere, 2025
1 in 663,000
Cashmere over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Cashmere over time
In 2025, Cashmere went to 10% girls and 90% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Cashmere?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #15,375
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cashmere sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cashmere. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cashmeres were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cashmere was born before 2004 — so the typical Cashmere is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 27.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 60.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 697
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (194).
Is Cashmere rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −6,826
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −10,336
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −8,866
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.26×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 14.3%
- Peak was 1995 (35)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 55.0% average annual change
Spellings of Cashmere
Cashmere is the most-used spelling, taking 57.7% of the 1,209 babies given a near-identical spelling.
- Cashmere57.7%697
- Kashmere42.3%512
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Cashmere is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Cashmere was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,277,274 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cashmere has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Cashmere is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Cashmere was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 510,614 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cashmere has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cashmere around the world
Where Cashmere ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1987–2010#801in 2010
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cashmere by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Cashmere
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cashmere
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.