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Nasir vs Nasya

American parents have registered 17,971 Nasirs since 1880, against 1,115 Nasyas. Nasir is still ahead, with 617 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nasir against Nasya, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nasir Nasya

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

Nasir has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1973 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Nasir had 35 and Nasya had 17.

Side by side

  Nasir Nasya
Total US births 17,9711,115
Most in one year 935125
Babies in 2025 61773
Estimated living today 18,0001,100
Median age today 1116
Peak year 20192024
Best rank 355th boys1,648th girls
Rank in 2025 486th2,438th
First recorded 19731985
Girls / boys 54 / 17,9171,115 / 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 Nasyas alive today are over 16; half the Nasirs are over 11. That is 5 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 Nasir Nasya
England and Wales 41731

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: Nasir and Nasya.