Nash

Boys’ name Recorded 1910-2025

Nash was given to 1,357 boys in 2025, #255 among boys’ names; 22,583 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 21,900 Americans named Nash and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13.

Babies named Nash each year, first recorded in 1910

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Nash or Karam Names of the 2020s Names in Texas

Births of Nash by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Nash mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Nash is “a male given name transferred from the surname, of modern America usage.”

/næʃ/

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Nash (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Nash?

#255 among boys’ names, 2025

Nash rose from #345 in 2015 to #255 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.52 to 0.79 per 1,000.

1,607 babies in 2021, the peak

Nash peaked in 2021, when 1,607 babies were given it (1,588 boys, #233 among boys’ names). The 1,366 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 85% of that peak.

Nash by year
Year	Births	Rank	Per 1,000 boys
2025	1,357	#255	0.79
2024	1,468	#240	0.85
2023	1,333	#259	0.78
2022	1,407	#251	0.81
2021	1,588	#233	0.91
2020	1,500	#240	0.87
2019	1,441	#254	0.80
2018	1,408	#257	0.78
2017	1,285	#281	0.69
2016	1,261	#286	0.66

Every recorded year (112)

Year	Births	Rank	Per 1,000 boys
2015	994	#345	0.52
2014	869	#365	0.45
2013	601	#466	0.32
2012	500	#525	0.26
2011	493	#520	0.26
2010	404	#613	0.21
2009	359	#678	0.18
2008	358	#677	0.18
2007	328	#708	0.16
2006	288	#743	0.14
2005	188	#933	0.09
2004	167	#992	0.08
2003	163	#979	0.08
2002	187	#879	0.10
2001	170	#918	0.09
2000	168	#918	0.09
1999	214	#747	0.11
1998	204	#770	0.11
1997	196	#759	0.10
1996	110	#1,095	0.06
1995	55	#1,657	0.03
1994	55	#1,653	0.03
1993	53	#1,672	0.03
1992	52	#1,667	0.03
1991	66	#1,401	0.03
1990	67	#1,362	0.03
1989	50	#1,602	0.02
1988	50	#1,505	0.03
1987	39	#1,723	0.02
1986	26	#2,201	0.01
1985	24	#2,270	0.01
1984	20	#2,502	0.01
1983	22	#2,319	0.01
1982	29	#1,922	0.02
1981	10	#4,054	0.01
1980	22	#2,340	0.01
1979	23	#2,212	0.01
1978	16	#2,755	0.01
1977	14	#2,999	0.01
1976	11	#3,407	0.01
1975	12	#3,181	0.01
1974	13	#2,894	0.01
1973	19	#2,184	0.01
1972	12	#2,943	0.01
1971	13	#2,768	0.01
1970	12	#2,832	0.01
1968	5	#4,554	under 0.01
1967	11	#2,569	0.01
1964	7	#3,508	under 0.01
1963	10	#2,801	under 0.01
1962	6	#3,902	under 0.01
1961	13	#2,387	0.01
1960	10	#2,806	under 0.01
1959	13	#2,377	0.01
1958	10	#2,756	under 0.01
1957	9	#2,959	under 0.01
1956	12	#2,453	0.01
1955	14	#2,196	0.01
1954	8	#3,103	under 0.01
1953	11	#2,492	0.01
1952	10	#2,627	0.01
1951	10	#2,609	0.01
1950	15	#1,999	0.01
1949	6	#3,588	under 0.01
1948	16	#1,919	0.01
1947	13	#2,224	0.01
1946	12	#2,233	0.01
1945	12	#2,095	0.01
1944	9	#2,580	0.01
1943	9	#2,679	0.01
1942	11	#2,348	0.01
1941	18	#1,670	0.01
1940	9	#2,619	0.01
1939	14	#1,938	0.01
1938	11	#2,283	0.01
1937	11	#2,292	0.01
1936	5	#3,909	under 0.01
1935	8	#2,873	0.01
1934	12	#2,218	0.01
1933	13	#2,063	0.01
1932	11	#2,419	0.01
1931	12	#2,291	0.01
1930	17	#1,871	0.02
1929	16	#1,977	0.01
1928	20	#1,743	0.02
1927	10	#2,846	0.01
1926	15	#2,161	0.01
1925	19	#1,850	0.02
1924	9	#3,180	0.01
1923	22	#1,680	0.02
1922	16	#2,114	0.01
1921	13	#2,465	0.01
1920	18	#1,939	0.02
1919	12	#2,463	0.01
1918	6	#4,028	0.01
1917	9	#2,881	0.01
1916	15	#2,017	0.02
1915	12	#2,257	0.01
1914	11	#2,064	0.02
1913	9	#2,044	0.02
1912	5	#2,794	0.01
1910	5	#1,771	0.03

Download Nash’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.

Is Nash a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Nash has been given almost only to boys: 144 girls in 112 years of records.

Girls and boys named Nash: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Nash, and how old are they?

21,900 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 97% of the 22,583 Americans ever recorded as Nash. The median Nash alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 13.

The 2020 Census counted 13,169 people named Nash (184 women and girls, 12,985 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,689 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.

Alive today, by age

90-997

80-8938

70-7969

60-6959

50-5995

40-49192

30-39573

20-291,910

10-196,110

0-9 (median)12,700

Alive today, by generation

By generation
Generation	Born	Alive
Silent Generation	1928-1945	39
Baby Boomers	1946-1964	133
Generation X	1965-1980	165
Millennials	1981-1996	713
Generation Z	1997-2012	4,320
Generation Alpha	2013-2025	16,500

An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.

Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).

Where are babies named Nash born?

The states with the most babies named Nash are Texas, California and Florida, with 19% of its births recorded by state in 2025.

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among boys’ names in the state in 2025
State	Births 2025	Rank, boys	vs. national
Texas	109	#349	0.7×
California	74	#437	0.5×
Florida	67	#289	0.6×
Ohio	61	#217	1.4×
Pennsylvania	60	#212	1.0×
Michigan	57	#183	1.2×
North Carolina	52	#242	0.9×
New York	49	#366	0.4×
Missouri	46	#154	1.3×
Arizona	43	#199	0.9×

Where Nash is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Nash is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 2.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

Utah2.87×

Iowa2.08×

South Dakota2.03×

North Dakota1.87×

Nebraska1.72×

Minnesota1.68×

Kansas1.63×

Indiana1.53×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nash with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.

Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nash

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

Name	Recorded	1910-2025
Karam	1,631
Lev	3,083
Zeus	2,696
Matteo	33,499
Bastian	2,614
Alister	1,664

Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

More about Nash and names like it

Compare Nash and KaramBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
The most given names of the 2020sNash peaked in 2021.
Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nash since 1910.
From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Nash: every such name, by how often it is given.
The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Nash.
The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nash alive today were born 2013-2025.
Names starting with NMost given first.

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