Boy · Hebrew, through Latin
Nazar
Say it: nah-ZAR
Meaning
From the saint's name Nazarius, from Hebrew nazir 'consecrated'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Popular among Ukrainian babies since the 2000s.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 476 babies given this name since 1977
- At its height in 2016, about 1 in 55,700 boys
- 23 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Назар
| Russian | Nazar |
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.