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Nash vs Nasiah

American parents have registered 22,583 Nashes since 1880, against 658 Nasiahs. Nash is still ahead, with 1,366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nash against Nasiah, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nash Nasiah

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Nash has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1910 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Nash had 163 and Nasiah had 20.

Side by side

  Nash Nasiah
Total US births 22,583658
Most in one year 1,60757
Babies in 2025 1,36657
Estimated living today 22,000650
Median age today 78
Peak year 20212025
Best rank 233rd boys2,765th boys
Rank in 2025 255th2,765th
First recorded 19101999
Girls / boys 144 / 22,439274 / 384

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Nash Nasiah
England and Wales 1276

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Nash and Nasiah.