Nasma

Name: Nasma: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-09-12

given name · Swahili · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nasma is a given name, most frequently recorded in Tanzania. It appears chiefly in Swahili and French, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common

TZTanzania1 in 4.6K◐
SYSyria1 in 55K
EGEgypt1 in 77K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

: ≈121 ●
Sources: 29 ●
: 1 in 255K ◐

Meaning & origin

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

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Nasma is recorded, by country
Country						Most common spelling	Sources
TZ Tanzania	#309	2,893	691 rec.	—	—	Nasma	17
SY Syria	—	609	667 rec.	—	—	Nasma	12
EG Egypt	—	509	195 rec.	—	—	Nasma	18
KE Kenya	—	195	12 rec.	—	—	Nasma	5
US United States	—	140	139 rec.	—	5	Nasma	29
MA Morocco	—	129	169 rec.	—	listed	Nasma	18
DZ Algeria	—	86	109 rec.	—	listed	Nasma	11
TR Türkiye	—	86	89 rec.	—	—	Nasma	4
IN India	—	66	61 rec.	—	1	Nasma	13
SA Saudi Arabia	—	66	31 rec.	—	—	Nasma	21
AE United Arab Emirates	—	52	46 rec.	—	—	Nasma	22
ES Spain	—	41△	18 rec.	1 in 1.2M	41	—	7
SE Sweden	—	40	35 rec.	1 in 255K	40	—	6
TH Thailand	—	36	16 rec.	—	—	Nasma	16
GB United Kingdom	—	33	43 rec.	—	—	Nasma	17
AU Australia	—	31	27 rec.	—	—	Nasma	16
NL Netherlands	—	22	15 rec.	1 in 785K	22	Nasma	5
DE Germany	—	16	16 rec.	—	—	Nasma	14
MY Malaysia	—	14	18 rec.	—	—	Nasma	5
SD Sudan	—	12	12 rec.	—	—	Nasma	9
DK Denmark	—	10	—	1 in 587K	10	—	—
AT Austria	—	7	1 rec.	—	2	Nasma	4
FI Finland	—	5	—	1 in 1.1M	20	—	—
CZ Czechia	—	2	—	1 in 5.4M	2	—	—
CR Costa Rica	—	1	0 rec.	1 in 5.1M	1	—	1
NO Norway	—	—	4 rec.	—	12	—	5
YT Mayotte	—	—	—	—	10	—	—
RE Réunion	—	—	0 rec.	—	5	—	1
PK Pakistan	—	—	0 rec.	—	listed	—	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●

Swahili2.7K24%
French2.4K22%
Hindi1.8K16%
Arabic1.6K14%
English6196%

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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name	Records	Note
Swahili	2,682	24%
French	2,432	22%
Hindi	1,752	16%
Arabic	1,604	14%
English	619	6%

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◐

Nasma is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

French given name2.7K records spelled Nasma3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Mayotte, Morocco, Syria
Also written Nãsmã, Ñasma
Hindi given name2.4K records spelled Nasma5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, Tanzania, United Kingdom
Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu
Also written Ñàšmâ
Indonesian given name479 records spelled Nasma3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Indonesia, Tanzania, India, Malaysia
Languages: Indonesian, Malay
Also written Ñàsmã
Spanish given name211 records spelled Nasma4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Spain, Tanzania, United States, India
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Nasmah
Turkish given name96 records spelled Nasma3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria
Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani
Also written Naşma

32 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.

Over time●

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Nasma in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1928–2015
Year	records
1928	1
1934	1
1939	2
1943	2
1944	1
1945	1
1947	2
1949	1
1950	4
1951	2
1952	2
1953	1
1955	3
1956	4
1957	4
1958	2
1959	3
1960	6
1961	2
1962	12
1963	6
1964	10
1965	7
1966	6
1967	11
1968	10
1969	8
1970	10
1971	9
1972	19
1973	8
1974	14
1975	8
1976	7
1977	18
1978	12
1979	7
1980	9
1981	16
1982	15
1983	20
1984	13
1985	19
1986	12
1987	13
1988	11
1989	12
1990	14
1991	14
1992	14
1993	15
1994	5
1995	11
1996	5
1997	7
2008	3
2010	5
2011	1
2012	1
2014	3
2015	1

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 61 years between 1928–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Attested in 23 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Nasma
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
ES Spain	INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)	—	41	#32,893
SE Sweden	Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)	—	40	#15,832
ES Spain	INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)	—	37	#16,180
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2020	31	—
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2019	29	—
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2017	28	—
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2018	27	—
YT Mayotte	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte)	2015	25	#4
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2016	25	—
NL Netherlands	Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)	—	22	#13,942
NL Netherlands	Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)	—	21	#18,997
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	20	#29,621
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	20	#28,148
YT Mayotte	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte)	2017	20	#12
YT Mayotte	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte)	2016	20	#10
YT Mayotte	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte)	2013	20	#3
YT Mayotte	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte)	2012	20	#3
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2015	20	—
IN India	naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)	1983	20	—
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2014	19	—
IN India	naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)	1985	19	—
IN India	naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)	1972	19	—
IN India	naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)	1977	18	—
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2013	16	—
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2012	16	—
IN India	naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)	1981	16	—
YT Mayotte	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte)	2023	15	#21
YT Mayotte	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte)	2014	15	#10
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2011	15	—
IN India	naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)	1993	15	—
IN India	naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)	1982	15	—
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2010	14	—
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2007	14	—
IN India	naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)	1992	14	—
IN India	naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)	1991	14	—
NO Norway	SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)	—	12	#22,880
YT Mayotte	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte)	2024	10	#41
DK Denmark	Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)	—	10	#8,056
ES Spain	INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)	—	10	#120,154
YT Mayotte	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte)	2022	10	#58
YT Mayotte	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte)	2021	10	#57
YT Mayotte	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte)	2020	10	#44
YT Mayotte	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte)	2018	10	#48
IN India	Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls	—	7	#18,678
RE Réunion	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion)	2019	5	#368
US United States	SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)	2023	5	—
FI Finland	DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)	—	5	—
YT Mayotte	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte)	2019	5	#227
RE Réunion	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion)	2008	5	#392
RE Réunion	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion)	2001	5	#339
CZ Czechia	MVČR — living population register 2017	—	2	#24,288
AT Austria	Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)	2023	2	#1,838
AT Austria	Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)	2023	1	#3,141
IN India	naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)	2015	1	—
IN India	naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)	1988	1	—
CR Costa Rica	TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names	—	1	#97,764
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2003	—	—
MA Morocco	Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list	—	—	—
DZ Algeria	Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT)	—	—	—
PK Pakistan	Muslim given names (CC0)	—	—	—

Reference works 1

Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

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Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nasma?: We estimate roughly 121 people bear Nasma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Nasma have the most bearers?: Nasma is most frequently recorded in Tanzania, where it is most often spelled nasma.
How common is Nasma compared with other names?: In Tanzania, Nasma is the 309th most common given name of 40,746 given names recorded there.
Is Nasma a male or female name?: Nasma 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.

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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot 2026-09-12. 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, “Nasma” — the 309th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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