To provide a method for manufacturing a plated nail excellent in corrosion resistance and durability rather than a conventional electroplated nail without discoloring neighboring lumbers even if nail head regions are wet by rain, and capable of extremely, efficiently and inexpensively manufacturing excellent nails in a continuous process and at fewer process steps.

A hot-dipped wire 10 having a hot-dipped layer 12 of a non ferrous metal on the surface of a core material 11 which is composed of almost exclusively iron is cut to a prescribed length, and, by a punching process in the side of a cut end 20a, and nail head portion 1a is formed.