Nasir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: l.from a personal name based on nasir ‘supporter’, ‘helper’ (Qur’an 9:116)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nasia/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nasir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common given name.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 511(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 763
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 797
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nasir itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 511 (inferred from the name graph)
≈310,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled ናስር in ET Ethiopia, Nasiru in NG Nigeria, Насер in MK North Macedonia and Naseer in AE United Arab Emirates.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
l.from a personal name based on nasir ‘supporter’, ‘helper’ (Qur’an 9:116). 2. from a personal name based on nasir ‘protector’. It is found in compounds such as Nasruddin (Arabic Nasir ud-Dln) ‘protector of religion’, i.e. ‘defender of the faith (Islam)’. Compare Nasser.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nasir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #14 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 763 | 1 | Nasir | 141 |
| BD Bangladesh | #78 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 797 | listed | Nasir | 111 |
| AF Afghanistan | #34 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 511 | — | Nasir | 34 |
| ET Ethiopia | #141 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | ናስር | 18 |
| NG Nigeria | #886 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Nasiru | 46 |
| US United States | — | 12,030 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Nasir | 198 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #381 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Naseer | 71 |
| MK North Macedonia | #769 | 1,907as Насер | 1 in 1.1K | 1.9K | Насер | 2 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
Nasir is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, helper, protector, defender
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, helper, protector, patron
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, helper; supporter
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In German, männl. Vom., türkische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
defender; friend;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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)
- Nasir Khusrawb. 1004AF11th-century Persian Isma'ili poet, scholar, philosopher, and missionary
- An-Nasirb. 1158IQAbbasid caliph (1158-1225)
- Naser al-Din Shah Qajarb. 1831IRnot in their usual nameShah of Qajar Iran from 1848 to 1896
- Naser Makarem Shirazib. 1927IRnot in their usual nameIranian Mujtahid and author
- Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabahb. 1940KWnot in their usual nameformer Prime Minister of Kuwait 2006-2011
- Nasser Al-Attiyahb. 1970QAnot in their usual nameQatari rally driver and sport shooter (born 1970)
- Nasb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper (born 1973)
- Nasser Al-Khelaifib. 1973QAnot in their usual nameA Qatari businessman residing in France and president of Paris Saint-Germain football club
- Mohamed Elnenyb. 1992EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian association football player (born 1992)
- Naser Alijib. 1993MKnot in their usual nameAlbanian-Swiss 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)
Attested in 84 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12K | #2,191 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 617 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 96 | #2,191 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 6 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Nasir come from?
- l.from a personal name based on nasir ‘supporter’, ‘helper’ (Qur’an 9:116). 2. from a personal name based on nasir ‘protector’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nasir?
- A machine transcription gives /nasia/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Nasir mean?
- Recorded meaning: l.from a personal name based on nasir ‘supporter’, ‘helper’ (Qur’an 9:116).
- Is Nasir a male or female name?
- Nasir is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Nasir?
- In the etymology graph, Naseer and Nassir are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Nasir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 306 thousand people named Nasir in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nasir.
- How common is the name Nasir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,030 people named Nasir in 2020, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Nasir compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Nasir is the 14th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nasirThe 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, “Nasir” — the 14th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.