Nassim
Nassim was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,704 among boys’ names; 307 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nassim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nassim mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nassim is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic نسيم or Persian نسیم.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nassim?
#8,704 among boys’ names, 2025
Nassim fell from #7,871 in 2015 to #8,704 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 5.3 per million.
18 babies in 2018, the peak
Nassim peaked in 2018, when 18 boys were given it, #5,245 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,704 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,143 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,706 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,587 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,975 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,519 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,476 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,245 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,449 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,398 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #7,871 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,519 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,499 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,892 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,398 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,595 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,981 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,440 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,825 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,394 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,378 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,214 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,298 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,967 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,919 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,714 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,859 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,053 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,546 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nassim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 307 Americans recorded as Nassim, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 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 Nassim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nassim, and how old are they?
An estimated 302 Americans named Nassim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 646 people named Nassim (188 women and girls, 458 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 248 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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.
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, Nassim is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 47 babies (19%), 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 Nassim
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 Nassim and names like it
- Compare Nassim and NaseemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNassim peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nassim since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Nassim: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Nassim.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nassim alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.