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Naseem vs Nasim

American parents have registered 1,546 Naseems since 1880, against 615 Nasims. Naseem is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Naseem Nasim

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 50 years in which either name was published, Naseem for 48 years and Nasim for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Naseem Nasim
Total US births 1,546615
Most in one year 10947
Babies in 2025 308
Estimated living today 1,500610
Median age today 2221
Peak year 20002000
Best rank 1,300th boys2,578th boys
Rank in 2025 3,658th8,910th
First recorded 19751980
Girls / boys 255 / 1,291119 / 496

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.

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 Nasim
England and Wales 290160
France 5325

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 Nasim.