# Nasser (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nasser/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,324 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,324 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 234, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 31 | 3,492 |
| 2012 | 35 | 3,218 |
| 2013 | 34 | 3,244 |
| 2014 | 43 | 2,791 |
| 2015 | 29 | 3,756 |
| 2016 | 42 | 2,874 |
| 2017 | 25 | 4,195 |
| 2018 | 27 | 3,959 |
| 2019 | 29 | 3,774 |
| 2020 | 27 | 3,888 |
| 2021 | 27 | 3,974 |
| 2022 | 22 | 4,653 |
| 2023 | 35 | 3,399 |
| 2024 | 34 | 3,436 |
| 2025 | 39 | 3,113 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 2,613 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2013 | 10 | 2,055 |
| 2014 | 7 | 2,690 |
| 2015 | 12 | 1,902 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,079 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2,693 |
| 2019 | 13 | 1,745 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2,960 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,451 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,048 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3,688 |
| 2025 | 7 | 2,952 |

## People named Nasser

- Nasser Al-Kadafi, A Qatari businessman residing in France and president of Paris Saint-Germain football club
- Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, former Prime Minister of Kuwait 2006-2011
- Nasser Djiga, Burkinabé footballer (born 2002)
- Nasser Khalili, British scholar, collector and philanthropist
- Nasser El Sonbaty, German Egyptian bodybuilder (1965-2013)
- Nasser al-Shami, boxer
- Nasser Al-Kharafi, businessman (1943-2011)
- Nasser Hussain, English cricketer (born 1968)
- Nasser Chamed, French footballer
- Nasser Kamel, Egyptian diplomat
- Nas, American rapper (born 1973)
- Nasir Khusraw, 11th-century Persian Isma'ili poet, scholar, philosopher, and missionary

## 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.