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Nasiya vs Nasser

American parents have registered 1,324 Nassers since 1880, against 290 Nasiyas. Nasser is still ahead, with 39 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nasiya 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 64 years in which either name was published, Nasser for 63 years and Nasiya for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Nasiya Nasser
Total US births 2901,324
Most in one year 2443
Babies in 2025 839
Estimated living today 2901,300
Median age today 1420
Peak year 20072014
Best rank 5,709th girls2,754th boys
Rank in 2025 10,917th3,089th
First recorded 19841957
Girls / boys 290 / 00 / 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 Nassers alive today are over 20; half the Nasiyas are over 14. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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