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Nash vs Nasya

American parents have registered 22,583 Nashes since 1880, against 1,115 Nasyas. Nash is still ahead, with 1,366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nash Nasya

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 1994, when Nash had 61 and Nasya had 19.

Side by side

  Nash Nasya
Total US births 22,5831,115
Most in one year 1,607125
Babies in 2025 1,36673
Estimated living today 22,0001,100
Median age today 716
Peak year 20212024
Best rank 233rd boys1,648th girls
Rank in 2025 255th2,438th
First recorded 19101985
Girls / boys 144 / 22,4391,115 / 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 Nasyas alive today are over 16; half the Nashes are over 7. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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.

Country Nash Nasya
England and Wales 12731

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 Nasya.