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Nazir

#1,071 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Nazir has been given to 3,961 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #1,071 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 243 recorded.

Babies named Nazir, 2025

1 in 16,400

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nazir: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nazir means

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

The naming story behind Nazir

One of the source’s documented entries for Nazir records a meaning of herald, warner.

One of the source’s documented entries for Nazir records a meaning of similar, alike, counterpart.

Origin, language, and formation

Nazir is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,961 boys were recorded with the name Nazir between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 243 in 2024; its best national rank was #946 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,080 in 2020 to #1,071 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,551 in 2015 to #1,071 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 Nazir?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,400
202 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 8,460
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,071
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,377 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nazir 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,377 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nazir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nazirs were born

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

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,961
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (1,320).

Is Nazir 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
−125
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+9
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+480
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.92×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.1%
Peak was 2024 (243)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
12.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#946
2024

Spellings of Nazir

Nazir is not the most common spelling — Amir is, with 30.0% against Nazir's 2.1%.

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 Nazir is used

Across 2016–2025, Nazir was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 3,448 boys, against 1 in 8,790 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 in 100,000).

129 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 3,448
  2. 2Maryland1 in 3,704
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 4,167
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 4,167
  5. 5Virginia1 in 4,348
  6. 6Ohio1 in 5,556
  7. 7Illinois1 in 5,882
  8. 8Florida1 in 6,250

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.

Nazir around the world

Where Nazir 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
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1982–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Notable people named Nazir

People whose public names include Nazir, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Nazir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,071
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 9
Best rank ever
#946
2024
Peak year
2024
243 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,961
Count in 2025
202

Names similar to Nazir

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

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Names with a curve like Nazir

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nazir, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Nazir

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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