girls:
119 births since 1980
#5597 (2nd percentile)
boys:
476 births since 1994
#4110 (10th percentile)
overall:
595 births since 1980
#7144 (8th percentile)
The name Nasim is the #7,144 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 595 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 7.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,110 (10.3% percentile) for all time with 476 births since 1994. For girls, it ranks #5,597 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 119 births since 1980.
Nasim first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (1980 for girls and 1994 for boys). Birth data for Nasim is available in 40 out of the 44 years between 1980 and 2023 (29 years for boys and 16 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Nasim has been given predominantly to boys, with 80.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Nasim were boys. Interestingly, until around 1996, the name was more popular for girls (88.9% girls from 1980 to 1995), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (93.8% boys from 1996 to 2023).
For boys, Nasim reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #783) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). Despite a peak around 2020, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Nasim ranks #899 for boys (1.3% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 53.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Nasim reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #819) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nasim".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Nasim. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.0% confident that Nasim is pronounced as nah-SEEM, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NAH-sihm, at 23.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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