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Nash vs Nassir

American parents have registered 22,583 Nashes since 1880, against 993 Nassirs. Nash is still ahead, with 1,366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nash Nassir

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 2005, when Nash had 188 and Nassir had 36.

Side by side

  Nash Nassir
Total US births 22,583993
Most in one year 1,60770
Babies in 2025 1,36628
Estimated living today 22,000980
Median age today 712
Peak year 20212019
Best rank 233rd boys2,062nd boys
Rank in 2025 255th3,848th
First recorded 19101991
Girls / boys 144 / 22,4390 / 993

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 Nassirs alive today are over 12; half the Nashes are over 7. That is 5 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 Nassir
France 35140
England and Wales 12742

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 Nassir.