Cache
Masculine · “a hiding place”
Cache is given to both — 1,005 boys and 475 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Cache is a French word English borrowed twice — once for a hiding place and once, much later, for a piece of fast computer memory. Behind both is the ordinary verb to hide.
How old is the name Cache?
Cache first appears in US birth records in 1981 — 44 years ago. The typical Cache alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 1,000 people named Cache are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cache most popular?
Cache peaked in 2012, reaching #2209 nationally. Today it ranks #3379, 1,170 places below that high. See the whole 2012 chart.
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Where it comes from
From cacher to Cache
The story of Cache
French-speaking trappers and traders working the western rivers buried their goods for the season and called the place a cache, and the word entered American English with them — Cache Valley in Utah and Cache la Poudre in Colorado both record the practice. The computing sense came much later and by a separate borrowing. Its use as a given name is recent and American, and it belongs with the word-names of the last two decades.
Meaning
a hiding place, a store
From French cacher, to hide; fur traders in North America used the word for a buried store of supplies, and it entered American English that way long before computers borrowed it again.
How the name formed
- cacher
- cache
Related forms: Cache
Pronouncing Cache
CASH
One syllable, identical in sound to the word cash. The final e is silent.
Nicknames for Cache
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1981
- Most boys named
- 201259 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2209reached in 2012
- Change vs 2024
- −12.8%34 in 2025, from 39
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Cache in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cache in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Utah, Arkansas, Idaho.
Caches among us
people named Cache are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 50,238 born in 2025 was named Cache
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Cache
- #3379
- Cache on the 2025 chart
- #889
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Cache went to 34 boys in 2025, but Kache is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 39, which makes it the 889th most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,490 places above the chart.
- Cache34
- Kache5
About 1 boy in 43,797 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 50,238 for Cache itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Zackariah test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Cache's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Zackariah climbed just as high around 1993, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Zackariah's path sketches the road Cache is walking now.
Cache sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Cache is headed
Cache should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Cache beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cache in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable and five letters, easy to write and impossible to mispronounce.
- A settled meaning with a genuinely interesting North American history behind it.
- It has a good concrete image — something valuable stored away.
- It sounds exactly like cash and will be spelled that way constantly.
- The computing sense is the first association for a great many people.
- A one-syllable word-name gives little room for a nickname.
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Masculine · #3379 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Caches are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Cache are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Cache?
- Cache is the most-used spelling in US records — 34 of the 39 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kache.
- How popular is the name Cache in 2025?
- Cache ranks #3379 among US boy names in 2025, with 34 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cache?
- About 1 in every 50,238 US boys born in 2025 was named Cache — 34 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cache with classmates?
- Cache will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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