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Nazanin

#6,754 in 2025Girls' name

Sweetheart, darling

Nazanin has been given to 257 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #6,754 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Nazanin, 2025

1 in 195,000

Nazanin over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nazanin: meaning, origin, and history

Sweetheart, darling

Persian

What Nazanin means

Nazanin means “sweetheart, darling”.

Origin, language, and formation

Nazanin is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 257 girls were recorded with the name Nazanin between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2024; its best national rank was #5,252 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,553 in 2020 to #6,754 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,868 in 2015 to #6,754 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 Nazanin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,754
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nazanin 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 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nazanin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nazanins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nazanin was born before 2019 — so the typical Nazanin is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
47.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
257
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Choose a decade

2020s — 47.9% of all recorded uses (123).

Is Nazanin 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
−1,502
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−201
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+9,114
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.0%
Peak was 2024 (25)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,252
2024

Spellings of Nazanin

Nazanin is not the most common spelling — Nalani is, with 83.4% against Nazanin's 2.7%.

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 Nazanin is used

Across 1910–2025, Nazanin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 707,342 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Nazanin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nazanin around the world

Where Nazanin 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
    2006–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2007–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    2006–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nazanin by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,754
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 201
Best rank ever
#5,252
2024
Peak year
2024
25 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
257
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Nazanin

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

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Sibling names for Nazanin

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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