Naksh
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 10 babies a year in England and Wales.
Naksh by the numbers
In 2025, 10 babies in England and Wales were named Naksh. In the US, 37 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 66 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Naksh
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Naksh. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Nashby the ash trees1,280 in the US (2017)
- Nakoawarrior43 in the US (2017)
- Nakaiinside the middle; a Japanese surname used as given name37 in the US (2017)
- Najahsuccess, achievement, prosperity18 in the US (2017)
- Nakiapure or chaste; a form of Nakiya7 in the US (2017)
- Navishnew; fresh; derived from nava6 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Naksh
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