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Nazar

#5,148 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Nazar has been given to 617 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #5,148 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Nazar, 2025

1 in 174,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nazar: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nazar means

Nazar has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Nazar

One of the source’s documented entries for Nazar records a meaning of vow, pledge.

Origin, language, and formation

Nazar is used in English and Turkmen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 617 boys were recorded with the name Nazar between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,340 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,233 in 2020 to #5,148 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,145 in 2015 to #5,148 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 Nazar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,148
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nazar 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nazar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nazars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nazar was born before 2014 — so the typical Nazar is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
617
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (239).

Is Nazar 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
−1,287
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−915
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,003
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.9%
Peak was 2016 (34)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,340
2016

Spellings of Nazar

Nazar is not the most common spelling — Lamar is, with 29.6% against Nazar's 0.54%.

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 Nazar is used

Across 1910–2025, Nazar was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 397,399 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Oregon1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 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. Nazar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nazar around the world

Where Nazar 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
    1997–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2011–2024
    #582
    in 2024
  • France
    1986–2024
    #3,594
    in 2024
  • Norway
    2024–2024
    #435
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nazar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,148
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 915
Best rank ever
#3,340
2016
Peak year
2016
34 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
617
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Nazar

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

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Sibling names for Nazar

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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