Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from the Middle English phrase atten ash, meaning “at the ash tree,” Nash is a given name that became somewhat popular for boys in the mid-1990s after the debut of the American television series Nash Bridges and received further exposure in 2005 when a character with this name appeared on the soap opera One Life to Live. Notable bearers of the surname include the mathematician John Nash (1928–2015).
20062006: 288 births, rank #741
2007: 328 births, rank #708
2008: 358 births, rank #677
2009: 359 births, rank #676
2010: 404 births, rank #613
20112011: 493 births, rank #519
2012: 500 births, rank #525
2013: 601 births, rank #466
2014: 869 births, rank #364
2015: 994 births, rank #345
20162016: 1,261 births, rank #286
2017: 1,285 births, rank #281
2018: 1,408 births, rank #257
2019: 1,441 births, rank #254
2020: 1,500 births, rank #240
20212021: 1,588 births, rank #233
2022: 1,407 births, rank #251
2023: 1,333 births, rank #259
2024: 1,468 births, rank #240
20252025: 1,357 births, rank #255
Nash moved from #240 to #255 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2021, with 1,588 births.