Naish
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Naish is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Nash.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 89K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 160K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 89K (inferred from the name graph)
≈740 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- EnglishNash(inferred from the name graph)via Nash
- Old Englishæsc(inferred from the name graph)via Nash
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Variant of Nash.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naish counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 89K | 1.3K | Naish | 138 |
| US United States | 301 | 1 in 1.1M | 429 | Naish | 156 |
| CA Canada | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Naish | 49 |
| AU Australia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 176K | 3 | Naish | 52 |
| IN India | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 13M | 16 | Naish | 6 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 383K | — | Naish | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Naish | 23 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Naishb. 1841Irish judge
- Francis Clement Prideaux Naishb. 1881GB(1881-1961)
- Irene Stainforth Brabantb. 1885not in their usual name(born 1885)
- J. Carrol Naishb. 1896USAmerican actor (1896-1973)
- Robby Naishb. 1963USwindsurfer and entrepreneur
- Chris Naishb. 1971AUAustralian rules footballer
- Darren Naishb. 1975GBBritish palaeontologist
- Patrick Naishb. 1999AUAustralian rules football player
- Tim Naishb. 2000NZNew Zealand glaciologist and climate scientist
- Will Naishb. 2003GBcricketer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.3K | #5,220 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 429 | #52,263 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 325 | #58,397 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 301 | #65,782 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 16 | #12,977 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Naish mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Nash. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does Naish have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 735 people named Naish in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naish.
- How common is the name Naish?
- In the United States, the national register counted 301 people named Naish in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naishThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Naish”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.