Nash

57,028 people in the United States were counted with the surname Nash in the 2020 census, making it the 579th most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,241.

By the numbers

People: 57,028
Rank: 579th
How common: 1 in 5,241
Per 100,000: 19.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Nash described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 66.9%
Black, not Hispanic 23.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Nash

John Forbes Nash (1928–2015)American mathematician and economist
Steve Nash (born 1974)Canadian basketball player and coach
Johnny Nash (1940–2020)American singer
Kevin Nash (born 1959)American professional wrestler
Ogden Nash (1902–1971)American poet
John Nash (1752–1835)British architect
Kate Nash (born 1987)British musician
Graham Nash (born 1942)British singer

People named Nash with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Nash

Also a first name

Nash has been given to 22,583 American babies as a first name since 1910, peaking in 2021. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.