Meaning not yet researched.
Nasir: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 617 in 2025. Its best rank was #355 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #355 in 2019; #487 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nasir in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#487 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #355.
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Nasir: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 617 boys in 2025. Peak: #355 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 929 (2019).
In 2025, 617 US boys were named Nasir, making it the 487th most common boys’ name of the year, down 41 places from #446 in 2024. That is 91 fewer than the 708 boys named Nasir in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #355, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 929. For comparison, it was #509 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nasir in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 6 babies. In all, 17,971 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,297 babies named Nasir.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,977 US boys were named Nasir; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 929. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,768 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nasir ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #118 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nazir (3,961 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nasser, Nassir and Nazier are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nasser (1,324), Nassir (993), Nazier (638), Nazar (617), Naseer (504), Naser (449), Nasier (415), Naasir (376), Naszir (269), Nahzir (222), Nasiir (131), Nahsir (112), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nasir in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 20 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 8 | #118 | #100 |
| Georgia | 59 | #210 | #295 |
| Maryland | 24 | #238 | #233 |
| Illinois | 35 | #310 | #446 |
| Connecticut | 10 | #317 | #348 |
| Michigan | 29 | #323 | #377 |
| Virginia | 25 | #341 | #223 |
| North Carolina | 33 | #352 | #269 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #360 | #516 |
| New York | 47 | #378 | #294 |
| Florida | 51 | #383 | #716 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #404 | #303 |
| Louisiana | 12 | #417 | — |
| Ohio | 24 | #450 | #345 |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #472 | #313 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #477 | — |
| Missouri | 13 | #482 | #456 |
| Nevada | 6 | #495 | — |
| Kentucky | 9 | #510 | — |
| Texas | 55 | #573 | #962 |
| New Jersey | 12 | #594 | #390 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #602 | #685 |
| Indiana | 11 | #611 | #652 |
| Colorado | 8 | #663 | — |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #666 | #448 |
| Alabama | 6 | #737 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #783 | — |
| California | 29 | #842 | #837 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #899 | #877 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,000 | #979 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,006 | #888 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 617 | #487 |
| 2024 | — | — | 708 | #446 |
| 2023 | — | — | 742 | #426 |
| 2022 | — | — | 859 | #377 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,743 | 907 | #357 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,808 | 865 | #360 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,061 | 929 | #355 |
| 2018 | — | — | 912 | #363 |
| 2017 | — | — | 757 | #411 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,553 | 681 | #454 |
| 2015 | — | — | 564 | #509 |
| 2014 | — | — | 498 | #554 |
| 2013 | — | — | 514 | #517 |
| 2012 | — | — | 463 | #562 |
| 2011 | — | — | 455 | #560 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,529 | 503 | #512 |
| 2009 | — | — | 602 | #454 |
| 2008 | — | — | 628 | #448 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,661 | 656 | #433 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,184 | 681 | #421 |
| 2005 | — | — | 715 | #398 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,504 | 525 | #478 |
| 2003 | — | — | 581 | #434 |
| 2002 | — | — | 579 | #433 |
| 2001 | — | — | 326 | #604 |
| 2000 | — | — | 373 | #561 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,905 | 343 | #571 |
| 1998 | — | — | 165 | #885 |
| 1997 | — | — | 189 | #786 |
| 1996 | — | — | 133 | #966 |
| 1995 | — | — | 55 | #1,663 |
| 1994 | — | — | 50 | #1,766 |
| 1993 | — | — | 35 | #2,241 |
| 1992 | — | — | 38 | #2,076 |
| 1991 | — | — | 24 | #2,799 |
| 1990 | — | — | 21 | #3,026 |
| 1989 | — | — | 18 | #3,289 |
| 1988 | — | — | 21 | #2,741 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,772 |
| 1986 | — | — | 11 | #4,046 |
| 1985 | — | — | 19 | #2,668 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,852 |
| 1983 | — | — | 20 | #2,471 |
| 1982 | — | — | 12 | #3,623 |
| 1981 | — | — | 21 | #2,387 |
| 1980 | — | — | 18 | #2,694 |
| 1979 | — | — | 20 | #2,443 |
| 1978 | — | — | 21 | #2,253 |
| 1977 | — | — | 14 | #3,001 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,767 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,902 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).