Nasir
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #13,464 · #486 for boys in 2025, 617 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 929 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 17,917since 1973
Nasir over time
Rank among boys' names. Nasir has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #486 | 617 | |
| 2024 | — | #446 | 708 | |
| 2023 | — | #426 | 742 | |
| 2022 | — | #377 | 859 | |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #357 | 907 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #360 | 865 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #355 | 929 |
| 2018 | — | #363 | 912 | |
| 2017 | — | #411 | 757 | |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #454 | 681 |
| 2015 | — | #509 | 564 | |
| 2014 | — | #552 | 498 | |
| 2013 | — | #517 | 514 | |
| 2012 | — | #561 | 463 | |
| 2011 | — | #558 | 455 | |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #511 | 503 |
| 2009 | — | #454 | 602 | |
| 2008 | — | #447 | 628 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #432 | 656 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #421 | 681 |
| 2005 | — | #398 | 715 | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #478 | 525 |
| 2003 | — | #434 | 581 | |
| 2002 | — | #432 | 579 | |
| 2001 | — | #602 | 326 | |
| 2000 | — | #561 | 373 | |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #570 | 343 |
| 1998 | — | #878 | 165 | |
| 1997 | — | #782 | 189 | |
| 1996 | — | #962 | 133 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,648 | 55 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,753 | 50 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,209 | 35 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,046 | 38 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,753 | 24 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,952 | 21 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,205 | 18 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,682 | 21 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,882 | 11 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,598 | 19 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,701 | 11 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,408 | 20 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,338 | 21 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,617 | 18 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,379 | 20 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,205 | 21 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,910 | 14 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
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| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Nasir! It came in at #4,505, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1975, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Nasir is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#194 · 1 in 1,351
- Pennsylvania#218 · 1 in 1,667
- New York#596 · 1 in 5,937
- North Carolina#703 · 1 in 7,647
Best ever in a state: #43 in District of Columbia, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #194 | 36 | 1 in 1,351 |
| Pennsylvania | #218 | 41 | 1 in 1,667 |
| New York | #596 | 20 | 1 in 5,937 |
| North Carolina | #703 | 6 | 1 in 7,647 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Nasir
- 40 spots since 2024 (#446 → #486)
- 126 spots since 2020 (#360 → #486)
- 23 spots since 2015 (#509 → #486)
- Biggest jump: 686 spots in 1996 (#1,648 → #962)
- Biggest drop: 96 spots in 1998 (#782 → #878)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2019 at #355 (929 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 30 yrs · run 1996–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,929 boys born in 2021 were named Nasir (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,768 boys born in 2025 (0.04%)
- Its best rank, #355 in 2019, was only 1 in 1,931 (0.05%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.0% of all boys named Nasir (6,276) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 68 | #2,205 (1978) | #3,283 |
| 1980s | 156 | #2,338 (1981) | #3,386 |
| 1990s | 1,053 | #570 (1999) | #1,655 |
| 2000s | 5,666 | #398 (2005) | #466 |
| 2010s | 6,276 | #355 (2019) | #479 |
| 2020s | 4,698 | #357 (2021) | #409 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nasir in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 14,243 of them was named Nasir, which outranked 90.9% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).