Wash
Wash was last recorded in 1972, when 5 babies were given it; 1,196 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wash by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Wash mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Wash is “a diminutive of the male given name Washington.”
Clipping of Washington.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Wash?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,727, in 1972; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1921, the peak
Wash peaked in 1921, when 31 boys were given it, #1,359 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 5 | #5,727 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #5,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,345 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,604 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #3,022 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,815 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,440 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,755 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,936 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,523 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 7 | #3,360 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #3,057 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,432 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 18 | #1,816 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 16 | #1,940 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,243 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,946 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,125 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,076 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,555 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,514 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 15 | #1,896 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,980 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,790 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,893 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,685 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,296 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,244 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,385 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,902 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,709 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,587 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,815 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,000 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,160 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 18 | #1,955 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,071 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,580 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 18 | #1,962 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,588 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,359 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,540 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,348 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,764 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,808 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,414 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,340 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,258 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,363 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,523 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 13 | #977 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,113 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 14 | #803 | 0.09 |
| 1908 | 11 | #876 | 0.07 |
| 1907 | 11 | #860 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 13 | #707 | 0.10 |
| 1905 | 14 | #664 | 0.11 |
| 1904 | 12 | #721 | 0.09 |
| 1903 | 10 | #782 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 11 | #738 | 0.09 |
| 1901 | 12 | #634 | 0.11 |
| 1900 | 19 | #577 | 0.13 |
| 1899 | 12 | #610 | 0.11 |
| 1898 | 9 | #802 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 14 | #582 | 0.12 |
| 1896 | 8 | #894 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 9 | #790 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 8 | #850 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 16 | #522 | 0.13 |
| 1891 | 12 | #560 | 0.12 |
| 1890 | 7 | #878 | 0.06 |
| 1889 | 17 | #463 | 0.15 |
| 1888 | 24 | #384 | 0.20 |
| 1887 | 11 | #580 | 0.11 |
| 1886 | 11 | #601 | 0.10 |
| 1885 | 18 | #438 | 0.17 |
| 1884 | 19 | #431 | 0.17 |
| 1883 | 20 | #398 | 0.19 |
| 1882 | 26 | #354 | 0.23 |
| 1881 | 16 | #441 | 0.16 |
| 1880 | 21 | #379 | 0.19 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wash a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wash has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wash: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wash, and how old are they?
An estimated 146 Americans named Wash and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 70 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 156 people named Wash (4 women and girls, 152 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 205 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Wash
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 Wash and names like it
- Compare Wash and IsomBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWash peaked in 1921.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wash since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Wash.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Wash alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.