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Nassir vs Nastassja

American parents have registered 993 Nassirs since 1880, against 485 Nastassjas. Nassir is still ahead, with 28 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nassir against Nastassja, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nassir Nastassja

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 42 years in which either name was published, Nassir for 27 years and Nastassja for 15 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Nassir Nastassja
Total US births 993485
Most in one year 7057
Babies in 2025 28under 5
Estimated living today 980470
Median age today 1234
Peak year 20191985
Best rank 2,062nd boys1,928th girls
Rank in 2025 3,848thunranked
First recorded 19911984
Girls / boys 0 / 993485 / 0

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 Nastassjas alive today are over 34; half the Nassirs are over 12. That is 22 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 Nassir Nastassja
France 140130
England and Wales 4221

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: Nassir and Nastassja.