Wash
Wash is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 354th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192131 births
- Best rank
- #354in 1882
- Since 1880
- 1,196people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,196 boys have been named Wash in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 31 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 31 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 30 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1921, its biggest year
Wash was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Wash
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Isompeak 1920
- Simpeak 1918
- Charleypeak 1920
- Pinkpeak 1919
- Chaspeak 1915
- Washingtonpeak 1921
- Docpeak 2021
- Olepeak 1881
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.