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Nashly vs Nasser

American parents have registered 1,324 Nassers since 1880, against 862 Nashlys. But in 2025 it was Nashly that was commoner, 142 babies to 39.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nashly against Nasser, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nashly 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 55 years and Nashly for 9 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Nashly Nasser
Total US births 8621,324
Most in one year 15143
Babies in 2025 14239
Estimated living today 8601,300
Median age today 320
Peak year 20242014
Best rank 1,452nd girls2,754th boys
Rank in 2025 1,500th3,089th
First recorded 20011957
Girls / boys 862 / 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 Nashlys are over 3. That is 17 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: Nashly and Nasser.