Is Cache a boy or girl name?

Cache is a unisex name. Of the 1,480 Americans recorded with the name since 1880, 32.1% were girls and 67.9% were boys. It changed hands in 2002, and has gone mainly to boys since.

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Cache

Recorded 1981–2025 · United States

Cache was most popular in 2012, when 66 American babies were given the name — ranking #4,658 that year. In 2025 it ranked #7,270, with 34 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,480 people named Cache.

Cache over time

Births per year. The dot marks Cache’s peak in 2012. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

Is Cache a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Cache is a unisex name — 32.1% of the 1,480 Americans given it were girls and 67.9% were boys. It changed hands: since 2002 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 5% girls and 95% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

Names that peaked alongside Cache

Where Cache is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

Utah 78.9×

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org