Nadir
Nadir was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,489 among boys’ names; 1,292 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Nadir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 13 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nadir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nadir mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nadir is “a male given name.”
Unknown. It has been suggested that it is from Arabic نَزِير (nazīr, “rare, trivial”), but if it is Arabic, perhaps more likely would be نَذِير (naḏīr, “auspicious, boding well (?)”). Represents the word 'rare' in Hebrew.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nadir?
#4,489 among boys’ names, 2025
Nadir fell from #4,142 in 2015 to #4,489 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 13.0 to 13.5 per million.
46 babies in 2001, the peak
Nadir peaked in 2001, when 46 boys were given it, #2,233 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,489 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,656 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,002 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,566 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,552 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,058 | 22.0 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,862 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 29 | #3,759 | 16.0 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,942 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,950 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #4,142 | 13.0 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,091 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,318 | 17.4 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,338 | 17.4 |
| 2011 | 40 | #2,937 | 21.1 |
| 2010 | 29 | #3,687 | 15.1 |
| 2009 | 40 | #2,978 | 20.2 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,619 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 39 | #3,006 | 18.8 |
| 2006 | 44 | #2,684 | 21.4 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,787 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,339 | 14.6 |
| 2003 | 36 | #2,760 | 18.2 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,861 | 17.0 |
| 2001 | 46 | #2,233 | 23.7 |
| 2000 | 36 | #2,601 | 18.3 |
| 1999 | 40 | #2,288 | 20.8 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,083 | 23.5 |
| 1997 | 36 | #2,331 | 19.1 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,881 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,063 | 12.1 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,731 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,839 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,553 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 22 | #2,956 | 10.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,924 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,557 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,076 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,793 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,801 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,038 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,906 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,790 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,138 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,467 | 11.2 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,054 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 22 | #2,288 | 12.8 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,881 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,455 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,397 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,182 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nadir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nadir has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nadir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nadir, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,292 Americans ever recorded as Nadir. The median Nadir alive today is 21 years old; half are between 13 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,750 people named Nadir (138 women and girls, 1,612 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,127 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 68 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 264 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 585 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 343 |
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 Nadir born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,197 | 3.7× |
Where Nadir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nadir is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1975 it was given 3.9 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 Nadir 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, Nadir is the second most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 34 babies (68%), the 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 Nadir
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 Nadir and names like it
- Compare Nadir and NaderBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNadir peaked in 2001.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nadir since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Nadir.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nadir alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.