# Nat (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nat/  
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 | /næt/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,162 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,162 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 9, 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 8 | 3,854 |
| 1973 | 19 | 2,187 |
| 1974 | 13 | 2,897 |
| 1976 | 7 | 4,768 |
| 1979 | 10 | 3,986 |
| 1980 | 6 | 6,012 |
| 1981 | 6 | 6,012 |
| 1982 | 9 | 4,475 |
| 1984 | 8 | 4,844 |
| 1987 | 5 | 7,774 |
| 1991 | 6 | 7,941 |
| 1992 | 5 | 9,390 |
| 1996 | 6 | 8,670 |
| 2002 | 5 | 11,911 |
| 2023 | 5 | 13,562 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3 | 3,225 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |

## People named Nat

- Nat King Cole, American singer and jazz pianist (1919–1965)
- Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (1925-2011)
- Nat Wolff, American actor, musician, and singer-songwriter
- Nat Faxon, American actor
- Nat Hentoff, American music critic, born 1925 (1925–2017)
- Nat Pendleton, American Olympic wrestler and actor (1895–1967)
- Nat Friedman, American computer programmer
- Nat Borchers, American soccer player
- Nat Pierce, American musician (1925–1992)
- Nat Butler, American bicycle racer (1870-1943)
- Nat Wei, Baron Wei, British politician and Baron (born 1977)
- Nat Love, African-American cowboy following the American Civil War

## 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.