Nat
Nat is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 475th, in 1894.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191561 births
- Best rank
- #475in 1894
- Since 1880
- 2,162people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,162 boys have been named Nat in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 61 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 61 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1910s alone account for 21%. It has spent 37 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Nat | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 108 | |
| 1890s | 125 | |
| 1900s | 117 | |
| 1910s | 444 | |
| 1920s | 353 | |
| 1930s | 241 | |
| 1940s | 220 | |
| 1950s | 216 | |
| 1960s | 183 | |
| 1970s | 94 | |
| 1980s | 34 | |
| 1990s | 17 | |
| 2000s | 5 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Nat was the 769th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Nat
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Adolphpeak 1917
- Abepeak 1917
- Melvillepeak 1918
- Alfpeak 1916
- Parkpeak 1923
- Sampeak 1918
- Wrightpeak 1915
- Flemingpeak 1917
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.