Nasar

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Nasser in FR France, SA Saudi Arabia, BR Brazil and 10 more, Nasir in BD Bangladesh, US United States, PL Poland and 5 more, Nazar in IN India, PK Pakistan, TR Türkiye and 1 more and Nassar in EG Egypt, AR Argentina, MX Mexico.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Nasar is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name7.6K records spelled Nasar4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan

  Also written Naṣār, Nāṣar, Našār

• Indonesian given name3.6K records spelled Nasar6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Našař, Näsär, Ňasâř, Naşar

• a separate name865 records spelled Nasar5 spellings in the group

  Also written Ñásàr, Nâsãr, Ñåsär, Nãsãr

• Thai given name270 records spelled Nasar18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, India, United States, Spain

  Also written เณศรา, Nessara, Netsara, นาซารี, นาซาร์

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Nasar 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 Icelandic, indefinite genitive singular of nös

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of nase

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Maltese, to help, to defend

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, present of nasa

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 82 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Nazar Firmanb. 1983UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian chess player
• Nazar Privalovb. 2009not in their usual nameice hockey 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 221 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nasar?

We estimate roughly 34 thousand people bear Nasar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Nasar have the most bearers?

Nasar is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled nasir.

How common is Nasar compared with other names?

In Bangladesh, Nasar is the 259th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.

Is Nasar a male or female name?

Nasar 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.