# Nasir (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nasir/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Naseer |
| US babies named this | 17,971 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 17,917 / 54 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 417, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَاصِر (nāṣir).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 6 | 13,905 |
| 2004 | 6 | 15,504 |
| 2006 | 5 | 19,184 |
| 2007 | 5 | 19,661 |
| 2010 | 7 | 14,529 |
| 2016 | 8 | 12,553 |
| 2019 | 6 | 15,061 |
| 2020 | 5 | 16,808 |
| 2021 | 6 | 14,743 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 455 | 560 |
| 2012 | 463 | 562 |
| 2013 | 514 | 517 |
| 2014 | 498 | 554 |
| 2015 | 564 | 509 |
| 2016 | 681 | 454 |
| 2017 | 757 | 411 |
| 2018 | 912 | 363 |
| 2019 | 929 | 355 |
| 2020 | 865 | 360 |
| 2021 | 907 | 357 |
| 2022 | 859 | 377 |
| 2023 | 742 | 426 |
| 2024 | 708 | 446 |
| 2025 | 617 | 487 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 2,194 |
| 2012 | 14 | 1,669 |
| 2013 | 10 | 2,055 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,459 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,483 |
| 2016 | 12 | 1,903 |
| 2017 | 16 | 1,546 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,683 |
| 2019 | 13 | 1,745 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 13 | 1,782 |
| 2022 | 22 | 1,224 |
| 2023 | 18 | 1,407 |
| 2024 | 12 | 1,951 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2,133 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.