Nash vs Nasser

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Nash Nasser

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

Of the 115 years in which either name was published, Nash for 108 years and Nasser for 7 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

• 1910–1962 Nash ahead
• 1963–1966 Nasser ahead
• 1967–1968 Nash ahead
• 1969 Nasser ahead
• 1970–1975 Nash ahead
• 1976 Nasser ahead
• 1977–1980 Nash ahead
• 1981 Nasser ahead
• 1982–2025 Nash ahead

Side by side

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 Nassers alive today are over 20; half the Nashes are over 7. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Nash Utah (5.5×), Idaho (2.7×), South Dakota (2.5×)
• Nasser Michigan (5.5×), California (3.7×), New York (3.2×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

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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