girls:
54 births since 1999
#5662 (1st percentile)
boys:
16.6k births since 1973
#896 (80th percentile)
overall:
16.6k births since 1973
#2004 (74th percentile)
The name Nasir is the #2,004 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,639 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 74.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #896 (80.5% percentile) for all time with 16,585 births since 1973. For girls, it ranks #5,662 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 54 births since 1999.
Nasir first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 1999 for girls). Birth data for Nasir is available in 49 out of the 51 years between 1973 and 2023 (49 years for boys and 9 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 Nasir has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Nasir reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 63.3% percentile (ranked #342) with 484 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 484 births per million (ranked 63.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Nasir ranks #391 for boys (57.1% percentile) with 404 births per million, which is 83.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Nasir reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #954) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nasir".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Nasir. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.3% confident that Nasir is pronounced as nah-SEAR, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NAH-sihr, at 26.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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