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Naseer vs Nash

American parents have registered 22,583 Nashes since 1880, against 504 Naseers. Nash is still ahead, with 1,366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Naseer Nash

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 Naseer had 11 and Nash had 61.

Side by side

  Naseer Nash
Total US births 50422,583
Most in one year 251,607
Babies in 2025 181,366
Estimated living today 50022,000
Median age today 157
Peak year 20002021
Best rank 3,299th boys233rd boys
Rank in 2025 5,208th255th
First recorded 19901910
Girls / boys 0 / 504144 / 22,439

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 Naseers alive today are over 15; half the Nashes are over 7. That is 8 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 Naseer Nash
England and Wales 27127

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: Naseer and Nash.