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Nasario vs Nasser

American parents have registered 1,324 Nassers since 1880, against 501 Nasarios. Nasser is still ahead, with 39 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nasario against Nasser, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nasario Nasser

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 94 years in which either name was published, Nasser for 60 years and Nasario for 34 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Nasario Nasser
Total US births 5011,324
Most in one year 1443
Babies in 2025 under 539
Estimated living today 3201,300
Median age today 4520
Peak year 20002014
Best rank 5,040th boys2,754th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,089th
First recorded 19151957
Girls / boys 0 / 5010 / 1,324

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 Nassers are over 20. That is 25 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 Nasser.