Namish — boys' name

What the Data Says About Namish

The Social Security Administration has registered 106 babies named Namish between 2003 and 2023, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Namish currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 15 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Namish performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 64 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Namish shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Namish in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Namish in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 106 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.