Nazar
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Slavic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,301 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #5,044 for boys
Nazar is a boys' name of Slavic origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,301st for boys in the UK (4 babies) and 5,044th for boys in the US (19 babies).
What does Nazar mean?
Slavic
A transliteration of the Belarusian, Russian, or Ukrainian male given name Наза́р (Nazár)
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Nazar a girl's or a boy's name?
Nazar is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 boys in the UK and 19 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nazar in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,301st among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 75,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 4 boys in the UK were named Nazar, making it the 4,301st most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,359th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 9 boys.
Half of all the boys named Nazar in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,212th in England and Wales.
Nazar in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,301 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,335 |
| 2023 | 5 | #3,712 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,017 |
| 2021 | 3 | #4,989 |
| 2020 | 9 | #2,359 |
| 2019 | 5 | #3,597 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #4,995 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 4 | #4,147 |
| 2011 | 5 | #3,446 |
| 2010 | 3 | #4,865 |
| 2009 | 4 | #3,909 |
| 2008 | 2 | #5,878 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 4 | #3,522 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 4 | #2,438 |
How popular is Nazar in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,044th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 19 about 1 in 90,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 17% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 19 boys in the US were named Nazar, making it the 5,044th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,137th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 34 boys. It first appears in the records in 1977.
2025 had fewer boys named Nazar than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Nazar in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nazar in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,044 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,791 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,472 |
| 2022 | 27 | #3,992 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,579 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,137 |
| 2019 | 19 | #4,947 |
| 2018 | 26 | #3,989 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,582 |
| 2016 | 34 | #3,292 |
| 2015 | 25 | #4,078 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,248 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,178 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,527 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,196 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,044 |
| 2009 | 19 | #4,920 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,041 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,431 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,777 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,819 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,241 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,870 |
| 2002 | 15 | #4,913 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,660 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,290 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,524 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,308 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,259 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,528 |
| 1995 | 9 | #5,922 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,862 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,121 |
Names like Nazar
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa, Muhammad, Umar, Hamza, Zayd, Abdullah, Zayaan, Zayan, Ahmed, Amir, Ibrahim, Mustafa
Names related to Nazar
More Slavic names
Mila, Milan, Vera, Mira, Nadia, Milana, Rayna, Zora, Milena, Raina, Damir, Lev, Siyana, Vlad, Lilyana, Yuri
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Nazar: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nazar, updated 20 October 2026.