Nazim
given name · Latin script
Meaning: organiser, governor
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nazim/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nazim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 964(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.6K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 3.3K
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 Nazim 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 964 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Назим in AZ Azerbaijan.
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)
organiser, governor
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nazim 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #161 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Nazim | 80 |
| PK Pakistan | #243 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Nazim | 74 |
| DZ Algeria | #233 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Nazim | 49 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #297 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 964 | 285 | Назим | 31 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Nazim | 39 |
| US United States | — | 803 | 1 in 414K | 790 | Nazim | 189 |
| XK Kosovo | #525 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 1.3K | Nazim | 2 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 549as Назим | 1 in 3.9K | 549 | — | 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; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); 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)
Nazim 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, organizer, arranger
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
El que establece el orden
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
one who arranges in
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Organizer,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Arabic, organiser; governor; arranger; composer of verses
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Nazim Pashab. 1848TROttoman Chief of Staff of the Ottoman Army during the First Balkan War of 1912–13
- Doktor Nâzımb. 1872TRnot in their usual nameTurkish statesperson (1870–1926)
- Nazim al-Kudsib. 1906SY1st President of the Syrian Arab Republic
- Nazem Al-Ghazalib. 1921IQnot in their usual namesinger-songwriter
- Nazim Z. Muradovb. 1947USAmerican physical chemist
- Nazim Hussainb. 1963INHindustani instrumentalist
- Nazim Hüseynovb. 1969AZAzerbaijani judoka
- Nazim Mehdib. 1971FRFrench surgeon
- Nazim Khaledb. 1986FRFrench singer-songwriter
- Nazim Babayevb. 1997AZAzerbaijani athletics competitor
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 76 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 1.3K | #581 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 790 | #14,618 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 285 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13 | #14,618 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2024 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 1 | #581 |
Reference works 9
- 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)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 does the name Nazim mean, and where does it come from?
- organiser, governor Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Nazim a male or female name?
- Nazim 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.
- How do you pronounce Nazim?
- A machine transcription gives /nazim/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What are other forms of the name Nazim?
- In the etymology graph, Nazım is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Nazim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 104 thousand people named Nazim in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nazim.
- How common is the name Nazim?
- In the United States, the national register counted 803 people named Nazim in 2020, about 1 in 414 thousand residents.
- How common is Nazim compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Nazim is the 161st most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nazim?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nazimThe 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, “Nazim” — the 161st most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.