Nasir

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title: "Nasir" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["arabic-language-masculine-given-names", "bosniak-masculine-given-names", "turkish-masculine-given-names", "masculine-given-names"] description: "Arabic masculine name" topic_path: "geography/turkey" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Arabic masculine name ::

Nasir () is a masculine given name, commonly found in Arabic which can mean "helper" or "one who gives victory" (grammatically the Stem I masculine singular active participle of consonantal verb root n-ṣ-r). The female form of the name is Nasira (). Alternative spellings of this name, possibly due to transliteration, include Naser, Nasser, Naseer, and Nacer.

People with the given name

• Ea-nasir (18th century BCE), copper merchant
• Nasir ibn Alnas (also known as An-Nasir ibn Alnas) (died 1088), fifth ruler of the Hammadids in Algeria
• Nasir ad-Din Qabacha (1150–1228), Muslim Turkic governor of Multan
• Al-Nasir (1158–1225), Abbasid caliph who ruled from 1158 to 1225
• Nasir al-Din Shah (1831–1896), ruler of Qajar dynasty in present-day Iran
• Nasir Kazmi (1925–1972), Pakistani Urdu poet
• Nasir Valika (born 1955), Pakistani cricketer
• Nasir Gebelli (born 1957), Iranian-American video game developer
• Naser Orić (born 1967), Bosnian military officer during the Bosnian War
• Nasir Jones, professionally known as Nas (born 1973), American rapper, actor, entrepreneur
• Nasir Adderley (born 1997), American football player

People with the surname

• Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970), second President of Egypt
• Ibrahim Nasir (1926–2008), Maldivian President
• Vali Nasr (born 1960), Iranian-American Middle Eastern expert
• Hakim Nasir (1947–2007), Pakistani Urdu poet also using the takhallus of Nasir
• Clare Nasir (born 1970), British weather forecaster
• Serdar Nasır, Turkish plastic surgeon
• Felipe Nasr (born 1992), Brazilian racing driver
• Bachtiar Nasir (born 1967), Indonesian ulama

Fictional characters with the name

• Nasir, the main character in the video game Lagoon
• Nasir, character in the TV series Spartacus
• Nasir, a playable character in both Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and its sequel Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
• Nasir, a Saracen character played by Mark Ryan in the British 1980s television series Robin of Sherwood (aired in the US as Robin Hood)
• Nasir Meidan, a fictional character in the Android: Netrunner
• Nasir Khan, a fictional character in the television miniseries The Night Of

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