Nashira — girls' name
295 babies named Nashira in U.S. Social Security records since 1976, with the highest year being 1983. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
28% of everyone ever named Nashira was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Nashira in 1983 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nashira
The Social Security Administration has registered 295 babies named Nashira between 1976 and 2023, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nashira currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nashira performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 83 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Nashira shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Nashira in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nashira in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 295 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Nashira at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nashira popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1976
- Peak year (1983)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 48 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
295 total births across 48 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1983 with 17 births in a single year.
Nashira by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 83 births that decade — 28% of Nashira's all-time total
Nashira decade highlights
- Peak decade 83 births
- Runner-up 63 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Nashira's strongest decade
83 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Nashira by state
Where Nashira concentrates geographically — total births since 1976
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 10 | 3.4% |
10 of 295 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 3.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1976–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.