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Nazier vs Nazir

American parents have registered 3,961 Nazirs since 1880, against 638 Naziers. Nazir is still ahead, with 202 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nazier against Nazir, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nazier Nazir

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

Nazir has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1985 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Nazier had 20 and Nazir had 73.

Side by side

  Nazier Nazir
Total US births 6383,961
Most in one year 33243
Babies in 2025 22202
Estimated living today 6303,900
Median age today 1311
Peak year 20202024
Best rank 3,344th boys946th boys
Rank in 2025 4,539th1,069th
First recorded 19961985
Girls / boys 0 / 6380 / 3,961

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 Naziers alive today are over 13; half the Nazirs are over 11. That is 2 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: Nazier and Nazir.