Nat
Nat was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 2,162 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nat by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nat mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nat is “a diminutive of the male given name Nathanael, Nathaniel, Nathan.”
Also “a diminutive of the female given name Natasha, Natalie, Natalia.”
/næt/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nat?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,557, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
61 babies in 1915, the peak
Nat peaked in 1915, when 61 boys were given it, #769 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #13,557 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,904 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,663 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,382 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,934 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,767 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,840 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,473 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,010 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,010 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 10 | #3,984 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,766 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,895 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,185 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,852 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,096 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 17 | #2,262 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,380 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,164 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,915 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,109 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 17 | #1,973 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 26 | #1,560 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 21 | #1,775 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,334 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 23 | #1,721 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 30 | #1,473 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,355 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,627 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 28 | #1,504 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #1,998 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 22 | #1,668 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,020 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 24 | #1,572 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 18 | #1,843 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,022 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 18 | #1,787 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 20 | #1,693 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 22 | #1,593 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,410 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 20 | #1,629 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 17 | #1,678 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,423 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,562 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,450 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,400 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,508 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,446 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,463 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,363 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,529 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,524 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,377 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,527 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,317 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,380 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 31 | #1,295 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 34 | #1,209 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,634 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 36 | #1,220 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 32 | #1,290 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,384 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 38 | #1,181 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 35 | #1,231 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 44 | #1,069 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 40 | #1,135 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 43 | #1,083 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 52 | #934 | 0.05 |
| 1918 | 48 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 56 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1916 | 51 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1915 | 61 | #769 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 42 | #833 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 36 | #795 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 49 | #578 | 0.11 |
| 1911 | 29 | #568 | 0.13 |
| 1910 | 20 | #669 | 0.10 |
| 1909 | 16 | #702 | 0.10 |
| 1908 | 16 | #674 | 0.10 |
| 1907 | 12 | #801 | 0.08 |
| 1906 | 12 | #740 | 0.09 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,192 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,344 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 14 | #609 | 0.12 |
| 1902 | 7 | #996 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 11 | #667 | 0.10 |
| 1900 | 18 | #595 | 0.12 |
| 1899 | 16 | #495 | 0.15 |
| 1898 | 15 | #561 | 0.12 |
| 1897 | 8 | #835 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,065 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 11 | #663 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 18 | #475 | 0.16 |
| 1893 | 9 | #743 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 16 | #511 | 0.13 |
| 1891 | 12 | #552 | 0.12 |
| 1890 | 14 | #527 | 0.13 |
| 1889 | 8 | #767 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 12 | #598 | 0.10 |
| 1887 | 8 | #725 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 9 | #678 | 0.08 |
| 1885 | 15 | #494 | 0.14 |
| 1884 | 8 | #739 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 13 | #511 | 0.12 |
| 1882 | 7 | #811 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 14 | #478 | 0.14 |
| 1880 | 14 | #495 | 0.13 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nat a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nat has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nat: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nat, and how old are they?
An estimated 557 Americans named Nat and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 56 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,229 people named Nat (797 women and girls, 1,432 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 669 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Nat rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Nat born?
The states with the most babies named Nat are New York, Texas and North Carolina, with 92% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 389 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Texas | 41 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kentucky | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Nat is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nat is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Nat with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,213 babies since 1880, Nat is the most given (98% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nat
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Nat and names like it
- Compare Nat and NhatBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sNat peaked in 1915.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nat since 1910.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Nat.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Nat alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.