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Nadir

#4,489 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly rare, trivial

Nadir has been given to 1,292 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #4,489 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Nadir, 2025

1 in 144,000

Nadir over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nadir: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly rare, trivial

Arabic

What Nadir means

Nadir may mean “rare, trivial”, associated with nazīr.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Unknown. It has been suggested that it is from Arabic نَزِير (nazīr, “rare, trivial”), but if it is Arabic, perhaps more likely would be نَذِير (naḏīr, “auspicious, boding well (?)”). Represents the word 'rare' in Hebrew.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Nadir (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Nadir is used in English and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Nadir comes through Arabic نَزِير.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,292 boys were recorded with the name Nadir between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 2001; its best national rank was #2,083 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,058 in 2020 to #4,489 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,142 in 2015 to #4,489 in 2025.

How common is Nadir?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,489
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nadir sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nadir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nadirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nadir was born before 2004 — so the typical Nadir is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,292
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (372).

Is Nadir rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+167
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,431
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−347
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2001 (46)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,083
1998

Spellings of Nadir

Nadir is not the most common spelling — Amir is, with 27.5% against Nadir's 0.64%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Nadir is used

Across 1910–2025, Nadir was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 123,914 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nadir has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nadir around the world

Where Nadir ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • France
    1947–2025
    #1,084
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nadir by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,489
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,431
Best rank ever
#2,083
1998
Peak year
2001
46 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,292
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Nadir

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Nadir

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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