# Nasr (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nasr/  
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 | “victory” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 97 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 97 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 23, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَصْر (naṣr, “victory”).

## What it means

Nasr is grouped under victory.

## 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 7 | 9,829 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,879 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10,432 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,459 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11,676 |
| 2016 | 6 | 11,712 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,759 |
| 2018 | 5 | 13,530 |
| 2019 | 5 | 13,534 |
| 2021 | 6 | 11,722 |
| 2022 | 6 | 11,868 |
| 2023 | 10 | 8,081 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8,773 |
| 2025 | 14 | 6,337 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |

## People named Nasr

- Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian Quranic thinker, author, and academic (1943-2010)
- Nasr ibn Sayyar, General and governor of Khurasan (663–748)
- Nasr ibn Asim al-Laithi, Arab grammarian
- Shibl al-Dawla Nasr, Emir of Aleppo from 1029 to 1038
- Ibn Qalāqis, Egyptian Arab poet and author

## 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.