Nasira
given name · Latin script
Meaning: at the head; at the top
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nəsɪɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nasira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 635K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Насира in KG Kyrgyzstan.
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)
at the head; at the top. a champion who advances at the head of the army.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nasira 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 | #392 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | Nasira | 41 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Nasira | 5 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Nasira | 17 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 43K | listed | Nasira | 14 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Nasira | 9 |
| US United States | — | 524 | 1 in 635K | 522 | Nasira | 117 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Насира | 10 |
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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names 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)
Nasira is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, (naseerah): helper, protector, patron; fem. of Nasir. See Nasir (m.). See Naasira 3_.ols
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, helper, protector, friend, patron; feminine of Nasir
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, helper, aide, assistant, protector
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Latvian, Nācarete, pilsēta Izraēlā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Nasira AkhterINNari Shakti Puraskar winner for grassroot innovation in environmental conservation
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 41 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 522 | #19,928 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 11 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #19,928 |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Where does the name Nasira come from?
- at the head; at the top. a champion who advances at the head of the army. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- How do you pronounce Nasira?
- A machine transcription gives /nəsɪɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Nasira mean?
- Recorded meaning: at the head; at the top.
- Is Nasira a male or female name?
- Nasira is a female 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.
- In which country does Nasira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 thousand people named Nasira in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nasira.
- How common is the name Nasira?
- In the United States, the national register counted 524 people named Nasira in 2020, about 1 in 635 thousand residents.
- How common is Nasira compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Nasira is the 392nd most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nasira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nasiraThe 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, “Nasira” — the 392nd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.