SlowpokeBlog

I meant to post this several days ago, but both readers Elmore and Chris have pointed out that there is a character named Cash in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, which shows the name has been around for a while. And that I need to read more Faulkner.

However... if you look at the ingenious Baby Name Wizard, which plots name popularity over the past century on a cool, moving graph, you'll see Cash shooting up like a rocket between 1990 and 2003. So it does appear to be a trend, as suggested in my cartoon -- albeit a somewhat limited one when compared to other names.