Nation — #4974 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Nation

The Social Security Administration has registered 401 babies named Nation between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nation currently holds the #4974 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 44 babies received it in a single year. Nation is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 68 additional births since 2002.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nation performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 159 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Nation shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. 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 Nation in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nation 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 401 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.