Nassir
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/nassiɾ/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Nassir is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 15Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 21Kfew records
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 21Kfew records
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nassir 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Nassir | 24 |
| KE Kenya | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Nassir | 23 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Nassir | 66 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Nassir | 14 |
| MA Morocco | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Nassir | 27 |
| US United States | 788 | 1 in 422K | 786 | Nassir | 152 |
| LY Libya | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Nassir | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Maulana Naseer Ahmad Khanb. 1918INnot in their usual nameIndian Islamic scholar
- Nasir Hussainb. 1931INnot in their usual nameIndian film director (1931–2002)
- Prince Nasir Mirzab. 1941not in their usual nameBhopali Noble
- Nasir Jalilb. 1955SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean footballer (1955-2011)
- Gamal Abdul Nasir Zakariab. 1965IDnot in their usual nameIndonesian writer, lecturer and preacher (born 1965)
- Muhammad Nasirb. 1973IDnot in their usual nameIndonesian politician
- Digital Nasb. 1995USnot in their usual nameAmerican record producer
- Abdul Nasir KhalidPKnot in their usual namePakistani mycologist and lichenologist
- Nasiru Musa YauriNGnot in their usual nameLecturer
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)45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 786 | #14,820 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 70 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 54 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 52 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 48 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 28 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #14,820 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What are other forms of the name Nassir?
- In the etymology graph, Nasir is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Nassir?
- In Swahili /nassiɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Nassir a male or female name?
- Nassir is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Nassir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Nassir in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nassir.
- How common is the name Nassir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 788 people named Nassir in 2020, about 1 in 422 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nassir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nassirThe 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, “Nassir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.