Naser
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Naser is a given name, most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is the 32nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: nickname for a gourmand, from Middle High German neser ‘shoulder bag for food’.
- XKKosovo1 in 379◐
- QAQatar1 in 671
- KWKuwait1 in 941
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈21K ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 200 ●
- 1 in 1.1K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
223K records
Official registry-verified
North Macedonia
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nazeer in PK Pakistan, IN India, Насер in MK North Macedonia and Nasir in TH Thailand.
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●
nickname for a gourmand, from Middle High German neser ‘shoulder bag for food’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #32 | 115,584 | 1.5K rec. | — | 1 | Nazeer | 79 |
| IN India | — | 113,854 | 87K rec. | — | 760 | Nazeer | 110 |
| US United States | — | 11,934 | 32K rec. | 1 in 28K | 12K | Naser | 200 |
| SY Syria | #449 | 8,738 | 19K rec. | — | — | Naser | 30 |
| IR Iran | — | 8,623 | 5.5K rec. | — | — | Naser | 55 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 5,669 | 9.5K rec. | — | — | Naser | 24 |
| EG Egypt | #850 | 5,052 | 8.1K rec. | — | listed | Naser | 78 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 4,935 | 6.1K rec. | — | 1 | Naser | 38 |
| FR France | — | 4,290△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 16K | 4.3K | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | 3,663 | 5K rec. | — | 1 | Naser | 97 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #306 | 3,615 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Naser | 95 |
| QA Qatar | #64 | 3,429 | 489 rec. | — | — | Naser | 37 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic37K32%
- English16K14%
- Hindi6.7K6%
- Persian5K4%
- 4.4K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 36,565 | 32% |
| English | 15,860 | 14% |
| Hindi | 6,681 | 6% |
| Persian | 4,994 | 4% |
| 4,359 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Naser 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, topographic name from German Nase ‘nose’, i.e. a projecting piece of land.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, Naser (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’den som hjälper’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of nos
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, egipatski premijer (1954—56) i predsjednik države (1956—1970); preuzeo vlast u prevratu protiv monarhije, vodio dva rata protiv Izraela (1956. i 1967); osnivač i predsjednik Arapske socijalističke unije, jedan od inicijatora politike nesvrstanosti
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1954 | 3 |
| 1955 | 10 |
| 1956 | 51 |
| 1957 | 103 |
| 1958 | 176 |
| 1959 | 169 |
| 1960 | 200 |
| 1961 | 177 |
| 1962 | 230 |
| 1963 | 211 |
| 1964 | 231 |
| 1965 | 233 |
| 1966 | 212 |
| 1967 | 248 |
| 1968 | 228 |
| 1969 | 226 |
| 1970 | 195 |
| 1971 | 242 |
| 1972 | 231 |
| 1973 | 230 |
| 1974 | 201 |
| 1975 | 217 |
| 1976 | 153 |
| 1977 | 166 |
| 1978 | 121 |
| 1979 | 114 |
| 1980 | 119 |
| 1981 | 84 |
| 1982 | 113 |
| 1983 | 82 |
| 1984 | 69 |
| 1985 | 64 |
| 1986 | 68 |
| 1987 | 49 |
| 1988 | 50 |
| 1989 | 31 |
| 1990 | 33 |
| 1991 | 18 |
| 1992 | 17 |
| 1993 | 13 |
| 1994 | 11 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 10 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 6 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 7 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 3 |
| 2007 | 2 |
| 2008 | 3 |
| 2009 | 3 |
| 2010 | 6 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 3 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2015 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2 |
| 2017 | 3 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 |
| 2020 | 3 |
| 2021 | 3 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2023 | 3 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| 2025 | 1 |
XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 72 years between 1954–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nasir Khusrawb. 1004AFnot in their usual name11th-century Persian Isma'ili poet, scholar, philosopher, and missionary
- An-Nasirb. 1158IQnot in their usual nameAbbasid caliph (1158-1225)
- Naser al-Din Shah Qajarb. 1831IRShah of Qajar Iran from 1848 to 1896
- Naser Makarem Shirazib. 1927IRIranian Mujtahid and author
- Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabahb. 1940KWnot in their usual nameformer Prime Minister of Kuwait 2006-2011
- Nasser Al-Attiyahb. 1970QAnot in their usual nameQatari rally driver and sport shooter (born 1970)
- Nasb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper (born 1973)
- Nasser Al-Khelaifib. 1973QAnot in their usual nameA Qatari businessman residing in France and president of Paris Saint-Germain football club
- Mohamed Elnenyb. 1992EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian association football player (born 1992)
- Naser Alijib. 1993MKAlbanian-Swiss association football 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●
Attested in 63 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 5.5K | #43 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,094 |
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 1.7K | #2,262 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,590 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.4K | #1,333 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,364 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 999 | #23,657 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 737 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 626 | #2,168 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 582 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 462 | #1,034 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 252 | #6,183 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 278 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Naser?
- We estimate roughly 21 thousand people bear Naser (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Naser have the most bearers?
- Naser is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled nazeer.
- How common is Naser compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Naser is the 32nd most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
- Is Naser a male or female name?
- Naser 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 does the name Naser mean?
- Recorded meaning: nickname for a gourmand, from Middle High German neser ‘shoulder bag for food’.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Naser” — the 32nd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.