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Badr

#12,261 in 2025Boys' name

Full moon

Badr has been given to 276 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #12,261 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Badr, 2025

1 in 663,000

Badr over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Badr: meaning, origin, and history

Full moon

Arabic

What Badr means

Badr means “full moon”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Badr is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈbadr/ for Badr.

Origin, language, and formation

Badr is used in French. Its origins include Arabic.

Badr comes through Arabic بَدْر.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Badr is pronounced /ba.d(ə)ʁ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 276 boys were recorded with the name Badr between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,148 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,673 in 2020 to #12,261 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,081 in 2015 to #12,261 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Badr?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,261
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Badr sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Badr. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Badrs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Badr was born before 2014 — so the typical Badr is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
276
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (131).

Is Badr rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−6,327
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,588
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,180
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.28×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.8%
Peak was 2014 (24)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,148
2014

Spellings of Badr

Badr is not the most common spelling — Barry is, with 29.9% against Badr's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Badr around the world

Where Badr ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1972–2025
    #872
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Badr by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,261
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,588
Best rank ever
#4,148
2014
Peak year
2014
24 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
276
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Badr

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BaderBadenBadiBadalBadriBadhir

Sibling names for Badr

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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