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Nasario vs Nasir

American parents have registered 17,971 Nasirs since 1880, against 501 Nasarios. Nasir is still ahead, with 617 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nasario against Nasir, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nasario Nasir

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 92 years in which either name was published, Nasir for 49 years and Nasario for 43 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Nasario Nasir
Total US births 50117,971
Most in one year 14935
Babies in 2025 under 5617
Estimated living today 32018,000
Median age today 4511
Peak year 20002019
Best rank 5,040th boys355th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked486th
First recorded 19151973
Girls / boys 0 / 50154 / 17,917

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Nasarios alive today are over 45; half the Nasirs are over 11. That is 34 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Nasario and Nasir.