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Nashla vs Nassir

American parents have registered 993 Nassirs since 1880, against 839 Nashlas. But in 2025 it was Nashla that was commoner, 45 babies to 28.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nashla Nassir

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 33 years in which either name was published, Nassir for 23 years and Nashla for 10 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Nashla Nassir
Total US births 839993
Most in one year 7770
Babies in 2025 4528
Estimated living today 830980
Median age today 612
Peak year 20212019
Best rank 2,345th girls2,062nd boys
Rank in 2025 3,389th3,848th
First recorded 19991991
Girls / boys 839 / 00 / 993

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 Nassirs alive today are over 12; half the Nashlas are over 6. That is 6 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 Nashla Nassir
France 5140

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: Nashla and Nassir.