Nasim
Nasim was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,445 among boys’ names; 615 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nasim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nasim mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nasim is “a unisex given name from Arabic.”
Ultimately from Arabic نَسِيم (nasīm).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nasim?
#9,445 among boys’ names, 2025
Nasim fell from #7,870 in 2015 to #9,445 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 4.7 per million.
47 babies in 2000, the peak
Nasim peaked in 2000, when 47 babies were given it (36 boys, #2,602 among boys’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 8 | #9,445 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 12 | #7,123 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 17 | #5,593 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 8 | #9,575 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 9 | #8,626 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 16 | #5,619 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 20 | #4,914 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 14 | #6,231 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 9 | #8,622 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 10 | #7,970 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 10 | #7,870 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,435 | 5 | #13,429 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 15 | #5,834 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 12 | #6,903 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 9 | #8,554 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 16 | #5,654 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 15 | #5,997 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 18 | #5,194 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 20 | #4,750 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 30 | #3,498 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 22 | #4,142 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 22 | #4,086 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 17 | #4,745 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 28 | #3,234 | |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,749 | 24 | #3,581 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,979 | 36 | #2,602 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 21 | #3,662 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 22 | #3,456 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,227 | 9 | #6,453 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 11 | #5,419 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,852 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,915 | 11 | #5,336 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,387 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,949 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,480 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,202 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,471 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,868 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,618 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,548 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,697 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,758 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Nasim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 615 Americans recorded as Nasim, 19% are girls and 81% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nasim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nasim, and how old are they?
An estimated 605 Americans named Nasim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,029 people named Nasim (1,234 women and girls, 795 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 542 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.7 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,468 babies since 1880, Nasim is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 47 babies (17%), the third 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 Nasim
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 Nasim and names like it
- Compare Nasim and NaseemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNasim peaked in 2000.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nasim since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Nasim: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Nasim.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nasim alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.