Cashmir
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- kash-MEER
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #5,606 for boys
Cashmir is a boys' name of Sanskrit origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,606th for boys in the US (16 babies).
What does Cashmir mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Kashmir; from the Himalayan region, Sanskrit Kashmira
Named after the Himalayan region of Kashmir; also the title of a 1975 Led Zeppelin song.
Meaning borrowed from Kashmir.
Is Cashmir a girl's or a boy's name?
Cashmir is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cashmir in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,606th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 110,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 22% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 16 boys in the US were named Cashmir, making it the 5,606th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,037th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 23 boys. It first appears in the records in 2010.
Half of all the boys named Cashmir in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 150 boys in the US were given Cashmir or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,174, up from #5,606 for this spelling alone.
- Kashmir 134
- Cashmir 16
Cashmir in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,606 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,252 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,250 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,438 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,771 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,037 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,681 |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,811 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,636 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,686 |
Nicknames for Cashmir
- Kash 20 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Cashmir
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zamir, Zahir, Zymir, Azir, Ahmir, Jamir, Nazir, Amir, Mahir, Nasir, Musa, Nahmir
Other spellings of Cashmir
Names related to Cashmir
More Sanskrit names
Maya, Bodhi, Arya, Lila, Arjun, Aarav, Rohan, Kali, Aryan, Opal, Arjan, Vihaan, Aadhya, Avyaan, Ishaan, Siya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Cashmir: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cashmir, updated 20 October 2026.