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Nizar

#6,059 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly little

Nizar has been given to 401 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #6,059 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Nizar, 2025

1 in 221,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nizar: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly little

Arabic

What Nizar means

Nizar may mean “little”.

Origin, language, and formation

Nizar is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 401 boys were recorded with the name Nizar between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2017; its best national rank was #4,062 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,980 in 2020 to #6,059 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,840 in 2015 to #6,059 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 Nizar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,059
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nizar 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nizar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nizars were born

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

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
401
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Choose a decade

2010s — 41.6% of all recorded uses (167).

Is Nizar 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
+1,550
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,079
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,219
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.7%
Peak was 2017 (26)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
53.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,062
2017

Spellings of Nizar

Nizar is not the most common spelling — Nazir is, with 19.5% against Nizar's 2.0%.

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 Nizar is used

Across 1910–2025, Nizar was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,521,754 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —
  3. 3New York1 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. Nizar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nizar around the world

Where Nizar 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
    2000–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    1969–2025
    #1,174
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2023
    #2,436
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1970–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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.

Nizar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,059
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,079
Best rank ever
#4,062
2017
Peak year
2017
26 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
401
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Nizar

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

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Sibling names for Nizar

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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