Entry № 7242 · English origin

Nash Nash — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"At the ash tree (modern unisex word-name)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "at the ash tree (modern unisex word-name)".

Nash is from the Old English atten ash ("at the ash tree") — historically a male surname now crossing into feminine use. John Nash (1928-2015) — male; American mathematician; Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (1994) for his work on game theory; his life was the subject of Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind (2001) — winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture, with Russell Crowe playing Nash; Nash was killed in a New Jersey taxi accident in 2015.

At the ash tree.

The name in its native script.

Nash
Transliteration
Nash
Pronunciation
/ næʃ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nash stands.

Nash does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nashs before her.

Real people
Steve Nash
Canadian NBA MVP.
born 1974
Ogden Nash
American poet.
1902 – 1971
In fiction
John Nash
A Beautiful Mind (Crowe).
2001

Names connected to Nash.

The number behind Nash.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nash reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.