Nassir
Masculine · “helper”
Nassir is the Arabic word for a helper — one who gives victory to another, which is a specific and rather generous thing to be called.
How old is the name Nassir?
Nassir first appears in US birth records in 1991 — 34 years ago. The typical Nassir is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,000 people named Nassir are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Nassir most popular?
Nassir peaked in 2019, reaching #2062 nationally. Today it ranks #3848, 1,786 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
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Where it comes from
From nasir to Nassir
The story of Nassir
The root n-s-r covers helping in the sense of bringing someone through to victory, and it produced a large family of names and titles — Nasir, Nasser, Mansur, Ansar. An Abbasid caliph and several later rulers took al-Nasir as a regnal title. The name is used across the Arab world and reaches American records with Arab and African-American Muslim families.
Meaning
helper, one who gives victory
From an Arabic root meaning to help or make victorious; nasir names the helper and mansur the one helped. Al-Nasir is a title borne by caliphs, and the same root gives the Egyptian surname usually written Nasser.
How the name formed
- nasir
- Nassir
Related forms: Nasir · Nasser · Naser · Nasır
Pronouncing Nassir
nah-SEER
Two syllables with the stress on the second. English speakers often say NASS-er.
Nicknames for Nassir
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1991
- Most boys named
- 201970 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2062reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- −17.6%28 in 2025, from 34
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Nassir in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Nasir in Arabic — transliteration
- Nasser in Arabic — spelling variant
- Naser in Persian — same name
- Nasır in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia.
Nassirs among us
people named Nassir are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 61,003 born in 2025 was named Nassir
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Fredrich test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Nassir's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Fredrich climbed just as high around 1936, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Fredrich's path sketches the road Nassir is walking now.
Nassir sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Nassir is headed
Nassir should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Nassir beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Nassir in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a genuinely generous sense — one who helps another win.
- Nas is a plain short form that is short and current.
- Recognized across the whole Arab world.
- Nasir, Nasser and Nassir are all in use and mark different traditions.
- The stress moves to the front in some English mouths.
- It is close to Nasir and Nazir, which are separate Arabic names.
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Frequently asked
- How many Nassirs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Nassir are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Nassir in 2025?
- Nassir ranks #3848 among US boy names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Nassir?
- About 1 in every 61,003 US boys born in 2025 was named Nassir — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Nassir with classmates?
- Nassir will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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