Nosson
Nosson was given to 27 boys in 2025, #4,013 among boys’ names; 849 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nosson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nosson?
#4,013 among boys’ names, 2025
Nosson fell from #3,341 in 2015 to #4,013 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.7 to 15.8 per million.
58 babies in 2012, the peak
Nosson peaked in 2012, when 58 boys were given it, #2,257 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,013 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,292 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 36 | #3,326 | 21.0 |
| 2022 | 29 | #3,840 | 16.6 |
| 2021 | 19 | #5,059 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,012 | 22.6 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,087 | 21.7 |
| 2018 | 42 | #2,875 | 23.1 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,742 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,203 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #3,341 | 17.7 |
| 2014 | 40 | #2,916 | 20.8 |
| 2013 | 41 | #2,829 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,257 | 30.6 |
| 2011 | 40 | #2,939 | 21.1 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,795 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,733 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 19 | #5,009 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,084 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,998 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,019 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,402 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,590 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,903 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,318 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,195 | 13.7 |
| 1999 | 35 | #2,535 | 18.2 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,347 | 8.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,086 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,403 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,499 | 3.1 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,894 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,051 | 4.0 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,301 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,748 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,102 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,316 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nosson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nosson has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nosson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nosson, and how old are they?
An estimated 837 Americans named Nosson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 642 people named Nosson (2 women and girls, 640 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 676 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 Nosson born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 18 | #442 | 14.1× |
Where Nosson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nosson is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1983 it was given 14.1 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 Nosson 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 Nosson
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 Nosson and names like it
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- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Nosson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nosson alive today were born 2013-2025.
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