# Nizar (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nizar/  
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 | “slender” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 401 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 401 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 47, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From a Persian word for "slender".

## 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 | 13 | 6,483 |
| 2012 | 16 | 5,649 |
| 2013 | 10 | 7,936 |
| 2014 | 24 | 4,224 |
| 2015 | 20 | 4,842 |
| 2016 | 14 | 6,256 |
| 2017 | 26 | 4,066 |
| 2018 | 11 | 7,475 |
| 2019 | 10 | 8,045 |
| 2020 | 19 | 4,984 |
| 2021 | 8 | 9,443 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,596 |
| 2023 | 14 | 6,422 |
| 2024 | 11 | 7,614 |
| 2025 | 15 | 6,062 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | 2,142 |
| 2001 | 5 | 2,220 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3,009 |
| 2008 | 7 | 2,507 |
| 2009 | 9 | 2,126 |
| 2010 | 5 | 3,332 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,334 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |

## People named Nizar

- Nizar, Fatimid prince and Nizari imam (1045–1095)
- Nizar ibn Maadd ibn Adnan, common ancestor of northern Arab tribes (the Adnanites)
- Al-Aziz Billah, Fatimid dynasty caliph from 975 to 996

## 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.