Nason
Masculine · “English”
The supply of surnames is effectively unlimited. English has several hundred thousand of them, most rare, and boys' naming has been drawing on that reservoir for thirty years without coming close to exhausting it. Nason is one of the ones that had not been used yet.
How old is the name Nason?
Nason first appears in US birth records in 1918 — 107 years ago. The typical Nason alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 600 people named Nason are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Nason most popular?
Nason peaked in 2015, reaching #3513 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 6,201 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Nason
The number of distinct surnames in England and Wales runs into the hundreds of thousands, and the great majority are borne by fewer than a hundred people. That reservoir is what American boys' naming has been drawing on since roughly the 1990s, when surname names moved from a genteel minority practice to the dominant category: Mason, Carter, Hudson, Grayson, Jackson, Parker, Cooper, Bennett, Beckett, Everett. The advantage is obvious. A surname is instantly plausible as a name because thousands of them already are, it carries no religious or ethnic commitment, and the supply cannot run out. The consequence is that names appear in the record with no history as given names at all, and a family choosing one is almost always choosing a sound rather than an ancestor. Nason arrived in the last decade and is at the very front of that queue.
Meaningscholars disagree
English, son of Nan
Nason is an English surname of uncertain origin. Proposals include a metronymic, son of Nan, a familiar form of Ann or Agnes; a topographic name from atten asshen, at the ash trees; and a variant of Nathanson. None is established. The American peak is 2015, which makes it one of the most recent names in the record.
Pronouncing Nason
NAY-sun
Two syllables, stress on the first. It rhymes exactly with Mason and Jason, which is a large part of its appeal.
Nicknames for Nason
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1918
- Most boys named
- 201531 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3513reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- −36.4%7 in 2025, from 11
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Nason in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Nasson in English — spelling variant
- Mason in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Nasons among us
people named Nason are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Nason
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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What happens to a name after it peaks
The Tecumseh test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Nason's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tecumseh climbed just as high around 1916, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tecumseh's path sketches the road Nason is walking now.
Nason sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Nason beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Nason in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The pronunciation is obvious from the spelling.
- It rhymes with two very familiar names.
- Two syllables with a firm first-syllable stress.
- The surname's own meaning is not settled.
- It is easily confused with Mason and Jason.
- The 2015 peak makes it very recent and untested.
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Masculine · #9714 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Nasons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Nason are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Nason in 2025?
- Nason ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Nason?
- About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Nason — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Nason with classmates?
- Nason will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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