Nazar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nazar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from Nazar in Navarre.
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 900(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 1.7K
- TRTürkiye≈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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nazar 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 900 (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 named Назар, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turkmenistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Назар in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
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)
habitational name from Nazar in Navarre.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nazar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #123 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Назар | 112 |
| AF Afghanistan | #107 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Nazar | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 14,760 | 1 in 2.6K | 15K | Nazar | 67 |
| RU Russia | #395 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | #145 | Назар | 151 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Nazar | 36 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #554 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 7.7K | Назар | 42 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #156 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 900 | — | Nazar | 20 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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)
Nazar 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 Turkish, look
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, 1. Bakma, göz atma. 2. Düşünme. 3. Göz değme. 4. İtibar, saygı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Arabic, vow; dedication
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
from a personal name based on Arabic nazzar ‘esteem’, ‘regard’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Russian, de nazar, consacré.
as a nameRussian 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)
- Nazar Mohammadb. 1921PKcricketer (1921-1996)
- Nazar Matchanovb. 1923UZSoviet politician (1923–2010)
- Nazar Petrosyanb. 1951TMArmenian football player and coach
- Nazar Honcharb. 1964UAUkrainian poet (1964–2009)
- Nazar Muhammad Saeedb. 1968IQIraqi politician
- Nazar Bayramovb. 1982RUTurkmenistan footballer
- Nazar Lytvynb. 1983UAassociation football player
- Nazar Kovalenkob. 1987UAOlympic racewalker
- Nazar Verbnyib. 1997UAUkrainian association football player
- Nazar Chepurnyib. 2002UAUkrainian artistic gymnast
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 99 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 648 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 616 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 616 | #5,228 |
Reference works 10
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Nazar mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Nazar in Navarre. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Nazar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Назар in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Is Nazar a male or female name?
- Nazar 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 Nazar?
- In the etymology graph, Nazzareno, Nazariy and Nazarius are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Nazar?
- In Poland, the national register counted 14,760 people named Nazar in 2026, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Nazar compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Nazar is the 123rd most common given name of 85,149 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/nazarThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nazar” — the 123rd most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.