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Nason vs Nassir

American parents have registered 993 Nassirs since 1880, against 579 Nasons. Nassir is still ahead, with 28 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nason 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 47 years in which either name was published, Nassir for 29 years and Nason for 18 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Nason Nassir
Total US births 579993
Most in one year 3170
Babies in 2025 728
Estimated living today 560980
Median age today 1512
Peak year 20152019
Best rank 3,513th boys2,062nd boys
Rank in 2025 9,714th3,848th
First recorded 19181991
Girls / boys 0 / 5790 / 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 Nasons alive today are over 15; half the Nassirs are over 12. That is 3 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: Nason and Nassir.