Nazeer — #7963 US boys' name
308 babies named Nazeer in U.S. Social Security records since 1993, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 44% of names given to boys today.
37% of everyone ever named Nazeer was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Nazeer in 2017 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nazeer
The Social Security Administration has registered 308 babies named Nazeer between 1993 and 2024, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nazeer currently holds the #7963 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nazeer performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 114 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Nazeer shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Nazeer in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nazeer 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 308 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.
Nazeer at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Nazeer popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1993
- Peak year (2017)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 32 years of records
Currently ranks #7963 among boys.
308 total births across 32 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2017 with 21 births in a single year.
Nazeer by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 114 births that decade — 37% of Nazeer's all-time total
Nazeer decade highlights
- Peak decade 114 births
- Runner-up 94 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Nazeer's strongest decade
114 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Nazeer by state
Where Nazeer concentrates geographically — total births since 1993
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 1.6% |
5 of 308 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 1.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 1.6% 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, 1993–2024 (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.