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The nash Surname

nash Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by an ash tree, a variant of Ash by misdivision of Middle English atten ash ‘at the ash’, or a habitational name from any of the many places in England and Wales named Nash, from this phrase, as for example Nash in Buckinghamshire, Herefordshire, or Shropshire. The name was established from an early date in Wales and Ireland.
  2. Jewish: of unknown origin, possibly an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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nash Family Facts

Distribution of nash Families in the US in 1920
Number of nash families
 359-716
 120-358		 1-119
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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