Nasir

Where Nasir comes from

Borrowed from Arabic نَاصِر (nāṣir).
— Wiktionary's entry for Nasir
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1973
    First appearance
    #4,505 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Nasir Adhama born
    Nigerian politician and youth activist
  3. 2019
    Peak, #355
    929 babies named Nasir — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Nasir Adhama · Nigerian politician and youth activist, born 1977

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.