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Bashar

#6,853 in 2025Boys' name

Bringing good news

Bashar has been given to 382 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #6,853 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Bashar, 2025

1 in 276,000

Bashar 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bashar: meaning, origin, and history

Bringing good news

Arabic

What Bashar means

Bashar means “bringing good news”.

Origin, language, and formation

Bashar is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Bashar comes through Arabic بَشَّار.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Bashar is pronounced /bəˈʃɑɹ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 382 boys were recorded with the name Bashar between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2004; its best national rank was #3,428 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,683 in 2020 to #6,853 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,707 in 2015 to #6,853 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 Bashar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,853
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bashar 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bashar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bashars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bashar was born before 2004 — so the typical Bashar is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
382
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Choose a decade

2000s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (152).

Is Bashar 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
+3,174
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,830
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−146
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.0%
Peak was 2004 (25)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
52.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,428
2000

Spellings of Bashar

Bashar is not the most common spelling — Asher is, with 80.0% against Bashar's 0.27%.

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.

Where Bashar is used

Across 1910–2025, Bashar was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,225,079 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bashar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bashar around the world

Where Bashar 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
    2001–2010
    #2,941
    in 2010
  • Canada
    2001–2007
    #2,479
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Bashar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,853
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,830
Best rank ever
#3,428
2000
Peak year
2004
25 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
382
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Bashar

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

BasselBassamBastienBasimBashirBastionBaselBasheerBasirBasemAksharBascomJujharBasileAzharYasharBasilioAsharBashMalharBastianRicharBassemTushar

Sibling names for Bashar

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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