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Naseem vs Nasiya

American parents have registered 1,546 Naseems since 1880, against 290 Nasiyas. Naseem is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Naseem Nasiya

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 49 years and Nasiya for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Naseem Nasiya
Total US births 1,546290
Most in one year 10924
Babies in 2025 308
Estimated living today 1,500290
Median age today 2214
Peak year 20002007
Best rank 1,300th boys5,709th girls
Rank in 2025 3,658th10,917th
First recorded 19751984
Girls / boys 255 / 1,291290 / 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 Naseems alive today are over 22; half the Nasiyas are over 14. That is 8 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: Naseem and Nasiya.