# Nash (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nash/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /næʃ/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Naish |
| US babies named this | 22,583 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 22,439 / 144 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 127, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 6 | 11,855 |
| 1993 | 6 | 12,920 |
| 1994 | 6 | 12,918 |
| 2014 | 7 | 14,148 |
| 2015 | 6 | 15,850 |
| 2016 | 6 | 15,664 |
| 2017 | 7 | 13,701 |
| 2018 | 9 | 11,182 |
| 2019 | 11 | 9,564 |
| 2020 | 19 | 6,256 |
| 2021 | 19 | 6,340 |
| 2022 | 8 | 11,923 |
| 2023 | 10 | 10,120 |
| 2024 | 15 | 7,493 |
| 2025 | 9 | 10,669 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 493 | 520 |
| 2012 | 500 | 525 |
| 2013 | 601 | 466 |
| 2014 | 869 | 365 |
| 2015 | 994 | 345 |
| 2016 | 1,261 | 286 |
| 2017 | 1,285 | 281 |
| 2018 | 1,408 | 257 |
| 2019 | 1,441 | 254 |
| 2020 | 1,500 | 240 |
| 2021 | 1,588 | 233 |
| 2022 | 1,407 | 251 |
| 2023 | 1,333 | 259 |
| 2024 | 1,468 | 240 |
| 2025 | 1,357 | 255 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | 3,227 |
| 2010 | 6 | 2,941 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2017 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,254 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## People named Nash

- Nash Edgerton, Australian film director
- Israel Nash, American singer-songwriter and singer
- Nash Grier, American Internet personality

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.