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Naseem vs Naseer

American parents have registered 1,546 Naseems since 1880, against 504 Naseers. Naseem is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Naseem against Naseer, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Naseem Naseer

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

Naseem has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2014, when Naseem had 22 and Naseer had 20.

Side by side

  Naseem Naseer
Total US births 1,546504
Most in one year 10925
Babies in 2025 3018
Estimated living today 1,500500
Median age today 2215
Peak year 20002000
Best rank 1,300th boys3,299th boys
Rank in 2025 3,658th5,208th
First recorded 19751990
Girls / boys 255 / 1,2910 / 504

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 Naseems alive today are over 22; half the Naseers are over 15. That is 7 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Naseem Naseer
England and Wales 29027

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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