Meaning not yet researched.
Nash: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,357 in 2025. Its best rank was #233 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #233 in 2021; #255 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Nash in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#255 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #233.
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Nash: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,357 boys in 2025. Peak: #233 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 1,588 (2021).
In 2025, 1,357 US boys were named Nash, making it the 255th most common boys’ name of the year, down 15 places from #240 in 2024. That is 111 fewer than the 1,468 boys named Nash in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #233, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,588. For comparison, it was #345 in 2015 and #2,000 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nash in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 22,583 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 9,302 babies named Nash.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,048 US boys were named Nash; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 1,588. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,259 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nash ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #74 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Nas, Naz and Naaz are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nas (253), Naz (173), Naaz (57).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nash in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 7 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 16 | #74 | #141 |
| Idaho | 25 | #102 | #202 |
| North Dakota | 11 | #117 | #145 |
| Iowa | 34 | #117 | #184 |
| Montana | 11 | #122 | #275 |
| Utah | 39 | #135 | #127 |
| Kansas | 26 | #149 | #190 |
| Missouri | 46 | #154 | #257 |
| West Virginia | 12 | #165 | #283 |
| Hawaii | 7 | #171 | — |
| Minnesota | 36 | #183 | #190 |
| Michigan | 57 | #183 | #319 |
| Alaska | 5 | #186 | — |
| Nebraska | 14 | #194 | #201 |
| Oklahoma | 26 | #195 | #337 |
| Maine | 7 | #195 | — |
| Arizona | 43 | #199 | #380 |
| Louisiana | 26 | #202 | #378 |
| Pennsylvania | 60 | #212 | #300 |
| Indiana | 40 | #212 | #250 |
| Ohio | 61 | #217 | #303 |
| Arkansas | 17 | #217 | #254 |
| Oregon | 19 | #227 | #418 |
| Mississippi | 14 | #233 | — |
| Washington | 33 | #239 | #408 |
| North Carolina | 52 | #242 | #270 |
| Kentucky | 22 | #250 | #293 |
| Wisconsin | 21 | #279 | #203 |
| Tennessee | 32 | #279 | #250 |
| Maryland | 20 | #280 | #409 |
| Illinois | 39 | #285 | #280 |
| Florida | 67 | #289 | #436 |
| Alabama | 19 | #296 | #294 |
| South Carolina | 19 | #297 | #337 |
| Georgia | 36 | #338 | #409 |
| Virginia | 25 | #340 | #406 |
| Texas | 109 | #349 | #461 |
| Colorado | 18 | #356 | #356 |
| New York | 49 | #366 | #603 |
| New Jersey | 22 | #373 | #607 |
| Connecticut | 8 | #376 | #433 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #401 | #684 |
| Nevada | 7 | #427 | — |
| California | 74 | #437 | #485 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,669 | 1,357 | #255 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,493 | 1,468 | #240 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,120 | 1,333 | #259 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,923 | 1,407 | #251 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,340 | 1,588 | #233 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,256 | 1,500 | #240 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,564 | 1,441 | #254 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,182 | 1,408 | #257 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,701 | 1,285 | #281 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,664 | 1,261 | #286 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,850 | 994 | #345 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,148 | 869 | #365 |
| 2013 | — | — | 601 | #466 |
| 2012 | — | — | 500 | #525 |
| 2011 | — | — | 493 | #520 |
| 2010 | — | — | 404 | #613 |
| 2009 | — | — | 359 | #678 |
| 2008 | — | — | 358 | #677 |
| 2007 | — | — | 328 | #708 |
| 2006 | — | — | 288 | #743 |
| 2005 | — | — | 188 | #933 |
| 2004 | — | — | 167 | #993 |
| 2003 | — | — | 163 | #980 |
| 2002 | — | — | 187 | #880 |
| 2001 | — | — | 170 | #919 |
| 2000 | — | — | 168 | #920 |
| 1999 | — | — | 214 | #749 |
| 1998 | — | — | 204 | #771 |
| 1997 | — | — | 196 | #761 |
| 1996 | — | — | 110 | #1,097 |
| 1995 | — | — | 55 | #1,662 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,918 | 55 | #1,658 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,920 | 53 | #1,677 |
| 1992 | — | — | 52 | #1,672 |
| 1991 | — | — | 66 | #1,407 |
| 1990 | — | — | 67 | #1,367 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,855 | 50 | #1,607 |
| 1988 | — | — | 50 | #1,510 |
| 1987 | — | — | 39 | #1,725 |
| 1986 | — | — | 26 | #2,203 |
| 1985 | — | — | 24 | #2,271 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,503 |
| 1983 | — | — | 22 | #2,320 |
| 1982 | — | — | 29 | #1,923 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #4,056 |
| 1980 | — | — | 22 | #2,341 |
| 1979 | — | — | 23 | #2,213 |
| 1978 | — | — | 16 | #2,756 |
| 1977 | — | — | 14 | #3,000 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,409 |
| 1975 | — | — | 12 | #3,183 |
| 1974 | — | — | 13 | #2,896 |
| 1973 | — | — | 19 | #2,186 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,945 |
| 1971 | — | — | 13 | #2,770 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,833 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,556 |
| 1967 | — | — | 11 | #2,570 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,509 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,802 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,903 |
| 1961 | — | — | 13 | #2,388 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,807 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,378 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,757 |
| 1957 | — | — | 9 | #2,960 |
| 1956 | — | — | 12 | #2,454 |
| 1955 | — | — | 14 | #2,197 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,104 |
| 1953 | — | — | 11 | #2,493 |
| 1952 | — | — | 10 | #2,628 |
| 1951 | — | — | 10 | #2,610 |
| 1950 | — | — | 15 | #2,000 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,589 |
| 1948 | — | — | 16 | #1,920 |
| 1947 | — | — | 13 | #2,225 |
| 1946 | — | — | 12 | #2,234 |
| 1945 | — | — | 12 | #2,096 |
| 1944 | — | — | 9 | #2,581 |
| 1943 | — | — | 9 | #2,680 |
| 1942 | — | — | 11 | #2,349 |
| 1941 | — | — | 18 | #1,670 |
| 1940 | — | — | 9 | #2,619 |
| 1939 | — | — | 14 | #1,938 |
| 1938 | — | — | 11 | #2,283 |
| 1937 | — | — | 11 | #2,292 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,910 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,873 |
| 1934 | — | — | 12 | #2,218 |
| 1933 | — | — | 13 | #2,063 |
| 1932 | — | — | 11 | #2,419 |
| 1931 | — | — | 12 | #2,292 |
| 1930 | — | — | 17 | #1,871 |
| 1929 | — | — | 16 | #1,977 |
| 1928 | — | — | 20 | #1,743 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,847 |
| 1926 | — | — | 15 | #2,161 |
| 1925 | — | — | 19 | #1,851 |
| 1924 | — | — | 9 | #3,181 |
| 1923 | — | — | 22 | #1,681 |
| 1922 | — | — | 16 | #2,115 |
| 1921 | — | — | 13 | #2,466 |
| 1920 | — | — | 18 | #1,939 |
| 1919 | — | — | 12 | #2,464 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #4,029 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,882 |
| 1916 | — | — | 15 | #2,018 |
| 1915 | — | — | 12 | #2,258 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #2,065 |
| 1913 | — | — | 9 | #2,045 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,795 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,772 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).