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Nassim

#8,704 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Breeze, through نسیم

Nassim has been given to 307 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #8,704 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 18 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.

Babies named Nassim, 2025

1 in 368,000

Nassim over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Nassim over time

In 2025, Nassim went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19772025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Nassim: meaning, origin, and history

Breeze, through نسیم

Arabic

What Nassim means

Nassim belongs to the name family reached through Nassim → نسیم. Its meaning is “breeze”.

Origin, language, and formation

Nassim is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Nassim comes through Arabic نسيم and Persian نسیم.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include نسیم.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 286 boys were recorded with the name Nassim between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2018; its best national rank was #4,968 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,519 in 2020 to #8,704 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,871 in 2015 to #8,704 in 2025.

In the United States, 21 girls were recorded with the name Nassim between 1977 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1977; its best national rank was #9,244 in 1977.

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 Nassim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,704
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nassim 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nassim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nassims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nassim was born before 2012 — so the typical Nassim is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
286
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (99).

Is Nassim 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
−561
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−185
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−833
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.90×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2018 (18)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,968
2000

Spellings of Nassim

Nassim is not the most common spelling — Nasir is, with 46.1% against Nassim's 0.74%.

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 Nassim is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Nassim was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Nassim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nassim around the world

Where Nassim 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
    1996–2020
    #3,848
    in 2020
  • France
    1965–2025
    #183
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2005
    #643
    in 2005

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.

Nassim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,704
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 185
Best rank ever
#4,968
2000
Peak year
2018
18 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
286
Count in 2025
9

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,244
1977
Peak year
1977
6 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nassim

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

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Sibling names for Nassim

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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