Nazeer
Nazeer was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,595 among boys’ names; 314 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nazeer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nazeer?
#11,595 among boys’ names, 2025
Nazeer rose from #11,674 in 2015 to #11,595 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 3.5 per million.
21 babies in 2017, the peak
Nazeer peaked in 2017, when 21 boys were given it, #4,689 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,595 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,148 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,490 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,591 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,977 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,907 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,668 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,397 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,689 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 12 | #7,017 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #11,674 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,396 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,397 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,208 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,151 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,430 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,699 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,591 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,441 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,774 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,100 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,834 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,892 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,327 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,188 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,551 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,159 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,312 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,707 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,549 | 3.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,359 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nazeer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nazeer has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nazeer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nazeer, and how old are they?
An estimated 310 Americans named Nazeer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 344 people named Nazeer (12 women and girls, 332 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 255 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,633 babies since 1880, Nazeer is the fourth most given (5.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 254 babies (2.4%), again the fourth 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 Nazeer
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 Nazeer and names like it
- Compare Nazeer and NazirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNazeer peaked in 2017.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nazeer since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Nazeer.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nazeer alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.