Nizar
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #5,859 for boys
Nizar is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “slender”. In 2025 it ranked 5,859th for boys in the US (15 babies).
What does Nizar mean?
Arabic
“slender”
A male given name from Arabic among Arabic people.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Nizar a girl's or a boy's name?
Nizar is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nizar in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2009, with 9 boys.
Nizar in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | #4,346 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #3,502 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #4,959 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 1 | #6,416 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 5 | #3,478 |
| 2009 | 9 | #2,241 |
| 2008 | 7 | #2,616 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,147 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 6 | #2,049 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,237 |
How popular is Nizar in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,859th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 110,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 15 boys in the US were named Nizar, making it the 5,859th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,851st. Its busiest year was 2017, with 26 boys. It first appears in the records in 1979.
2025 had more boys named Nizar than any year since 2020.
Half of all the boys named Nizar in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nizar in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,859 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,252 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,215 |
| 2022 | 8 | #8,983 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,851 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,638 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,132 |
| 2017 | 26 | #3,989 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,048 |
| 2015 | 20 | #4,709 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,135 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,532 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,476 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,250 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,240 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,091 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,388 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,299 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,628 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,824 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,718 |
| 2001 | 9 | #6,928 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,341 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,524 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,553 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,636 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,008 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,785 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,103 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,408 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,264 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,353 |
Names like Nizar
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Umar, Hamza, Muhammad, Musa, Abdullah, Ahmed, Zayd, Zayan, Zayaan, Amir, Mustafa, Ammar
Names related to Nizar
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo, Safa
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, “Nizar: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nizar, updated 20 October 2026.