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Nash vs Nasiya

American parents have registered 22,583 Nashes since 1880, against 290 Nasiyas. Nash is still ahead, with 1,366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nash Nasiya

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 1984, when Nash had 20 and Nasiya had 19.

Side by side

  Nash Nasiya
Total US births 22,583290
Most in one year 1,60724
Babies in 2025 1,3668
Estimated living today 22,000290
Median age today 714
Peak year 20212007
Best rank 233rd boys5,709th girls
Rank in 2025 255th10,917th
First recorded 19101984
Girls / boys 144 / 22,439290 / 0

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Nasiyas alive today are over 14; half the Nashes are over 7. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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