Cashton
Masculine
Cashton is one of the newer American names built on an old frame: Cash, a surname that came into English from Old French, joined to the -ton ending that already gave us Ashton, Colton and Paxton. There is a village in western Wisconsin spelled exactly this way. In the mouth it's two beats — a short hard first syllable, a soft one falling away after it.
How old is the name Cashton?
Cashton first appears in US birth records in 1999 — 26 years ago. The typical Cashton is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,900 people named Cashton are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cashton most popular?
Cashton peaked in 2024, reaching #1031 nationally. Today it ranks #1112, 81 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From Cash to Cashton
The story of Cashton
Cashton comes out of a distinctly American habit of making first names from surname sounds capped with -ton. Ashton, Colton, Braxton and Paxton all reached wide use ahead of it, and Cashton was built to the same measure. The Cash half stands on its own record: a surname in England and Ireland for centuries, and a first name in the United States well before this longer form appeared. Cashton itself is very young in the record, which is why nearly everyone carrying it is still a child.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Cashton has no established meaning as a whole word, because it was assembled rather than inherited. Its parts do have histories: -ton is the Old English tūn, 'enclosure, farmstead, settlement', the ending behind thousands of English place names, and Cash is an English and Irish surname traced to Old French casse, a maker of boxes and cases, as well as an old short form of Cassius. Whether either of those was in anyone's mind when the name was first given is not recorded.
How the name formed
- Cash
- Cashton
Pronouncing Cashton
KASH-tun
Stress on the first syllable; the second is light, exactly as in Ashton and Colton. No one who can read Ashton will stumble over it.
Nicknames for Cashton
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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
- 1999
- Most boys named
- 2024216 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1031reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −10.6%193 in 2025, from 216
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.
Cashton in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Wisconsin, North Carolina.
Cashtons among us
people named Cashton are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 8,850 born in 2025 was named Cashton
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Cashton
- #1112
- Cashton on the 2025 chart
- #325
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Cashton went to 193 boys in 2025, but Kashton is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 990, which makes it the 325th most-given boys’ name of the year — 787 places above the chart.
- Kashton797
- Cashton193
About 1 boy in 1,725 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 8,850 for Cashton 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 Jakub test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Cashton's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jakub climbed just as high around 2008, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jakub's path sketches the road Cashton is walking now.
Cashton 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 Cashton is headed
Cashton should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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.
Cashton beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cashton in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Comes with a ready-made short form, Cash, that already works as a full given name — the child can go long or short at any age.
- Built entirely from familiar parts, so it is spelled the way it sounds and rarely needs repeating twice.
- Rare enough that a classroom will almost certainly hold only one, without being a name people have never encountered.
- Shares its spelling with a real village in Wisconsin, one of the states where the name is most used.
- Most people will hear the English word cash inside it before anything else. That association is plain and unavoidable — worth saying out loud together now rather than discovering how you feel about it later.
- Expect a steady trickle of Cashten, Caston and plain Cash on paperwork, and the occasional slide into Ashton over the phone.
- The name's whole history is recent, so there are no adult or elderly Cashtons to set a tone. It reads as belonging entirely to this generation of children, which some parents like and some find untested.
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Frequently asked
- How many Cashtons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,900 people named Cashton are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Cashton?
- Cashton is one of 2 recorded spellings. Kashton is the more common one — 797 births in 2025 against 193 for Cashton.
- How popular is the name Cashton in 2025?
- Cashton ranks #1112 among US boy names in 2025, with 193 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cashton?
- About 1 in every 8,850 US boys born in 2025 was named Cashton — 193 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cashton with classmates?
- Cashton will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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