Nasir
Nasir was given to 617 boys in 2025, #487 among boys’ names; 17,971 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,800 Americans named Nasir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nasir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nasir mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nasir is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic نَاصِر (nāṣir).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nasir?
#487 among boys’ names, 2025
Nasir rose from #509 in 2015 to #487 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.29 to 0.36 per 1,000.
935 babies in 2019, the peak
Nasir peaked in 2019, when 935 babies were given it (929 boys, #355 among boys’ names). The 617 births of 2025 are 66% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 617 | #487 | 0.36 |
| 2024 | 708 | #446 | 0.41 |
| 2023 | 742 | #426 | 0.43 |
| 2022 | 859 | #377 | 0.49 |
| 2021 | 907 | #357 | 0.52 |
| 2020 | 865 | #360 | 0.50 |
| 2019 | 929 | #355 | 0.52 |
| 2018 | 912 | #363 | 0.50 |
| 2017 | 757 | #411 | 0.41 |
| 2016 | 681 | #454 | 0.36 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 564 | #509 | 0.29 |
| 2014 | 498 | #554 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 514 | #517 | 0.27 |
| 2012 | 463 | #562 | 0.24 |
| 2011 | 455 | #560 | 0.24 |
| 2010 | 503 | #512 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 602 | #454 | 0.30 |
| 2008 | 628 | #448 | 0.31 |
| 2007 | 656 | #433 | 0.32 |
| 2006 | 681 | #421 | 0.33 |
| 2005 | 715 | #398 | 0.36 |
| 2004 | 525 | #478 | 0.26 |
| 2003 | 581 | #434 | 0.29 |
| 2002 | 579 | #433 | 0.30 |
| 2001 | 326 | #604 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 373 | #561 | 0.19 |
| 1999 | 343 | #570 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 165 | #884 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 189 | #784 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 133 | #964 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 55 | #1,658 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 50 | #1,761 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,236 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 38 | #2,071 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,793 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 21 | #3,020 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,283 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 21 | #2,736 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,765 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,042 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 19 | #2,666 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,849 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,470 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,622 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 21 | #2,386 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,693 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,442 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,253 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #3,000 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,765 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,900 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nasir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nasir has been given almost only to boys: 54 girls in 51 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nasir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nasir, and how old are they?
17,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 17,971 Americans ever recorded as Nasir. The median Nasir alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 12,030 people named Nasir (96 women and girls, 11,934 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,343 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 79 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 473 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,510 |
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 Nasir born?
The states with the most babies named Nasir are Georgia, Texas and Florida, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 59 | #210 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 55 | #573 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 51 | #383 | 0.8× |
| New York | 47 | #378 | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 35 | #310 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 33 | #352 | 1.9× |
| California | 29 | #842 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 29 | #323 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 25 | #341 | 2.0× |
| Maryland | 24 | #238 | 2.3× |
Where Nasir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nasir is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1973 it was given 3.4 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 Nasir 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,163 babies since 1880, Nasir is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 617 of their 738 babies (84%), again the most given.
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 Nasir
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 Nasir and names like it
- Compare Nasir and NasserBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNasir peaked in 2019.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nasir since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Nasir: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Nasir.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nasir alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.