Naser

#7,065 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Nasir

Naser has been given to 449 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #7,065 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Naser, 2025

1 in 276,000

Naser over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Naser: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Nasir

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Naser means

Naser is a alternate transcription of Nasir.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Naser → Nasir. The family’s meaning is “helper”, recorded in the naming reference for Nasir.

Origin, language, and formation

Naser is used in Albanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nasir.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 449 boys were recorded with the name Naser between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2002; its best national rank was #3,364 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,292 in 2020 to #7,065 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,300 in 2015 to #7,065 in 2025.

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 Naser?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,065
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Naser 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naser. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nasers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Naser was born before 2003 — so the typical Naser is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
449
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (107).

Is Naser 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
+1,077
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,227
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,235
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2002 (18)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,364
1983

Spellings of Naser

Naser is not the most common spelling — Casey is, with 24.6% against Naser's 0.09%.

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.

Naser around the world

Where Naser 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
    2004–2023
    #3,524
    in 2023
  • France
    1960–2025
    #4,590
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1988–1988
    #476
    in 1988

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Naser by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,065
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,227
Best rank ever
#3,364
1983
Peak year
2002
18 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
449
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Naser

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

Sibling names for Naser

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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