The NASH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	51,021	601	0.019	189
United States (1880 census)	15,677	361	0.031	314
Change since 1880	+35344	-240	-0.012	-125
Other Countries
Australia	4,487	327	0.027	274
United Kingdom	19,622	284	0.043	427

Top States for NASH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	4,106	560	0.020	197
California	3,836	762	0.011	113
Florida	2,598	705	0.016	163
Michigan	2,341	365	0.024	236
New York	2,273	690	0.012	120
Top States for NASH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	1,052	369	0.037	370
Tennessee	1,838	428	0.032	323
Louisiana	1,418	397	0.032	317
Arkansas	831	367	0.031	311
Missouri	1,627	342	0.029	291

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called NASH live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NASH represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NASH in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NASH by picking someone at random in Mississippi than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NASH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NASH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the NASH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of NASH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	852	1.67
White (Hispanic)	689	1.35
Native American/Alaskan	367	0.72
Asian/Pacific	245	0.48
White (Caucasian)	36,858	72.24
Black/African American	12,005	23.53

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the NASH surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of NASH in historical publications

Supposed to be a corruption of "Atten-Ash,"--at the ash. Naish, a place near Bristol, England. Naisg, Gaelic, made fast, bound, protected. Probably an old fortress or watch-tower.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

NASH. See prefix. Atle or Atten. A man dwelling by an ash-tree would be called Aten Ash or Atten Ash. See H.R. Ate Nasse, x\d Nasse. On the suppression of the prefix, the N still adhered to the designation of the tree, and the name became Nash. By the same process we got Noakes, Nye, &c. It must not be forgotten, however, that there are localities called Nash, in cos. Salop, Bucks, Monmouth, &c. Yet some of these were originally called Ash. The vill of Esse or Ash, co. Oxford, was corrupted to Nashe, temp. E,ichard II. Dunkin's Oxfordshire i. 177.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to NASH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NASH.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.