Nader
Nader was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,522 among boys’ names; 1,555 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,480 Americans named Nader and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 23 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nader by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nader?
#7,522 among boys’ names, 2025
Nader fell from #6,575 in 2015 to #7,522 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 6.4 per million.
61 babies in 1990, the peak
Nader peaked in 1990, when 61 boys were given it, #1,443 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,522 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,902 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,700 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,120 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,562 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,285 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,469 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,991 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,876 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,601 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,575 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,636 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,138 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,186 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,860 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,268 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,997 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,192 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,208 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,657 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,016 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,338 | 14.6 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,083 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,731 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 46 | #2,232 | 23.7 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,780 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 42 | #2,220 | 21.9 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,362 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 28 | #2,794 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 37 | #2,237 | 19.5 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,005 | 22.1 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,153 | 19.7 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,068 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 53 | #1,647 | 26.5 |
| 1991 | 45 | #1,781 | 22.3 |
| 1990 | 61 | #1,443 | 29.7 |
| 1989 | 45 | #1,721 | 22.5 |
| 1988 | 45 | #1,604 | 23.5 |
| 1987 | 43 | #1,627 | 23.0 |
| 1986 | 37 | #1,714 | 20.1 |
| 1985 | 46 | #1,468 | 24.9 |
| 1984 | 38 | #1,596 | 21.1 |
| 1983 | 27 | #1,996 | 15.1 |
| 1982 | 29 | #1,921 | 16.0 |
| 1981 | 25 | #2,124 | 14.0 |
| 1980 | 29 | #1,943 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 30 | #1,853 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 26 | #1,948 | 15.8 |
| 1977 | 38 | #1,503 | 23.1 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,151 | 14.0 |
| 1975 | 29 | #1,739 | 18.6 |
| 1974 | 26 | #1,819 | 16.5 |
| 1973 | 26 | #1,766 | 16.7 |
| 1972 | 23 | #1,908 | 14.2 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,252 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,703 | 7.0 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,379 | 7.8 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,163 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,844 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,163 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,806 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,440 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nader a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nader has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nader: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nader, and how old are they?
1,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,555 Americans ever recorded as Nader. The median Nader alive today is 34 years old; half are between 23 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 3,874 people named Nader (14 women and girls, 3,860 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,446 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 295 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 618 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 415 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 148 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Nader born?
The states with the most babies named Nader are California, New York and Illinois, with 81% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 254 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 72 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 66 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 34 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Nader is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nader is most over-represented in California: since 1963 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nader with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,847 babies since 1880, Nader is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 34 babies (32%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nader
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nader and names like it
- Compare Nader and NadirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNader peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nader since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Nader.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nader alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.