Nacer
given name · Latin script
Meaning: to be born, to sprout, to begin to grow; to hatch (out) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: INSEE, 2024
Nacer is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country, where it is the 79th most common given name.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 6.3Kfew records
- MAMorocco≈1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈43,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)to be born, to sprout, to begin to grow; to hatch (out)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nacer counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #79 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Nacer | 66 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Nacer | 62 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 1.3K | Nacer | 236 |
| TN Tunisia | #541 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Nacer | 22 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 563K | — | Nacer | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 178 | 1 in 281K | 178 | Nacer | 25 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 67 | Nacer | 16 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Nacer is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, to be born
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Nacer Chadlib. 1989BEBelgian association football player (born 1989)
- Nacer Bouhannib. 1990FRracing cyclist
- Nacer Baraziteb. 1990NLDutch association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nacer mean, and where does it come from?
- to be born, to sprout, to begin to grow; to hatch (out) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Nacer?
- In the etymology graph, Nativo is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Nacer a male or female name?
- Nacer is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2024) and Spain (INE).
- Which countries have the most people named Nacer?
- Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Nacer in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nacer. After it come Morocco, France, Tunisia and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nacer?
- In Spain, the national register counted 178 people named Nacer, about 1 in 281 thousand residents.
- How common is Nacer compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Nacer is the 79th most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nacerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nacer” — the 79th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.