Nasir

What Nasir means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Nasir yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #486 vs #2,133 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Nasir?

US: Steady: #509 in 2015, #486 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2483 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 907 boys got the name (#357 that year). First in the US records in 1973.

How common

• About 1 in 2,768 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 24,721 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DC (3.17 per 1,000 boys), GA (1.17 per 1,000 boys), MD (1.05 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Nasir is #486 in the US and #2133 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Nasir were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Nazir202 US
• Nyzir56 US
• Nasser39 US · 7 E&W
• Nysir29 US
• Nassir28 US
• Nazar19 US · 4 E&W
• Naseer18 US
• Nahzir12 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Naseer

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Nasir

Boys

• Hamza#541“lion”^*
• Mohamed#527Variant of Muhammad, meaning “praised, commendable, laudable”^*
• Zahir#738Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 7 babies
• Ahmed#703Variant of Ahmad, meaning “praiseworthy”^*
• Omari#686Editor’s note Down from #508 in 2015 to #686 in 2025 in the US
• Ali#306“high, exalted”^*

For a sister

• Noor#659“light”^*
• Sariyah#624“a cloud that comes by night”^*
• Leyla#611Editor’s note Up from #782 in 2015 to #611 in 2025 in the US
• Lylah#584Editor’s note Up from #629 in 2015 to #584 in 2025 in the US
• Leila#259Editor’s note Steady in the US: #247 in 2015 and #259 in 2025
• Fatima#330Spanish and Portuguese, meaning “abstainer”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Nasir’s. Rank is US 2025.