Wash
Wash reached its high-water mark in 1921 at number 1,329, and has been recorded 1,196 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1972. About 150 Washes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 76.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Wash
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,196
- Estimated living today
- 150
- Median age today
- 76
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 1,329th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Washes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,196 babies given the name since 1880, about 150 are alive — 13 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1949 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Washs
- Wash Westmoreland (born 1966)American film director
People named Wash with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Wash is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Wash is most concentrated in Alabama (28.7×), Mississippi (21.5×), South Carolina (10.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Wash peaked:
Related names
Wash against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.