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Nargis

Girls' name

Narcissus

Nargis has been given to 76 babies in the U.S. since 1989. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Nargis, 2021

1 in 424,000

Nargis over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nargis: meaning, origin, and history

Narcissus

Persian

What Nargis means

Nargis means “narcissus”, associated with nargis.

Origin, language, and formation

Nargis is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

Nargis comes through fa-cls نَرْگِس.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 76 girls were recorded with the name Nargis between 1989 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2000; its best national rank was #9,357 in 1989.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Nargis?

Nargis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 424,000
8 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 205,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
293,719 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nargis sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 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 293,719 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nargis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nargiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nargis was born before 2008 — so the typical Nargis is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
76
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.5% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Nargis 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (9)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,357
1989

Spellings of Nargis

Nargis is not the most common spelling — Margie is, with 63.1% against Nargis's 0.05%.

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.

Nargis around the world

Where Nargis 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
    1997–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    1984–2005
    #3,787
    in 2005
  • Canada
    2006–2006
    #2,939
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nargis by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,357
1989
Peak year
2000
9 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
76
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nargis

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

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Sibling names for Nargis

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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