Nasiru
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nasiru is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- NGNigeria1 in 2.1K◐
- KEKenya1 in 120K
- GHGhana1 in 147K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 74K ●
- Sources
- 73 ●
in 5 countries
48K records
Official registry-verified
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.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #195 | 35,495 | 47K rec. | — | listed | Nasiru | 73 |
| KE Kenya | — | 240 | 0 rec. | — | — | Nasiru | 4 |
| US United States | — | 228 | 332 rec. | — | listed | Nasiru | 50 |
| GH Ghana | #797 | 116 | 161 rec. | — | — | Nasiru | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 57 | 50 rec. | — | — | Nasiru | 28 |
| IN India | — | 36 | 21 rec. | — | 1 | Nasiru | 8 |
| DE Germany | — | 12 | 19 rec. | — | — | Nasiru | 16 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 9 | 3 rec. | — | — | Nasiru | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 6 | 5 rec. | — | — | Nasiru | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | — | 3 rec. | — | 10 | — | 3 |
| SL Sierra Leone | — | — | 3 rec. | — | 1 | — | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | — | 9 rec. | — | 1 | — | 3 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English36K49%
- Swahili22K29%
- Amharic3.2K4%
- Indonesian2.3K3%
- Arabic2.1K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 36,035 | 49% |
| Swahili | 21,531 | 29% |
| Amharic | 3,220 | 4% |
| Indonesian | 2,348 | 3% |
| Arabic | 2,087 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Nasiruddin Khakwanib. 1942PKnot in their usual namePakistani Islamic scholar
- Naseeruddin Shahb. 1950INnot in their usual nameIndian actor and director
- Nasiru L. Abubakarb. 1977NGNigerian journalist
- Nasir Chowdhuryb. 1989BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi footballer
- Nasiruddin Nasrat Shahnot in their usual namesultan of Bengal from 1519 until his assassination in 1533
- Nasiruddin Haqqaninot in their usual nameTaliban fighter
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 8 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 47 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nasiru?
- Our records include 73,663 bearers of Nasiru across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Nasiru have the most bearers?
- Nasiru is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled nasiru.
- How common is Nasiru compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Nasiru is the 195th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
- Is Nasiru a male or female name?
- Nasiru 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.
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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, “Nasiru” — the 195th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.