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Basheer

#8,343 in 2025Boys' name

Bringer of good news

Basheer has been given to 225 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #8,343 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Basheer, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Basheer: meaning, origin, and history

Bringer of good news

Arabic

What Basheer means

Basheer means “bringer of good news”, associated with bašīr.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Arabic بَشِير (bašīr, “bringer of good news”)

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Basheer (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Basheer is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Basheer comes through Arabic بَشِير.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Basheer is pronounced /bəˈʃiɹ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 225 boys were recorded with the name Basheer between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1991; its best national rank was #4,018 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,754 in 2020 to #8,343 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,547 in 2015 to #8,343 in 2025.

How common is Basheer?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,343
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Basheer 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Basheer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Basheers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Basheer was born before 2003 — so the typical Basheer is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
225
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.8% of all recorded uses (76).

Is Basheer 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,411
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−796
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.90×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.3%
Peak was 1991 (14)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,018
1991

Spellings of Basheer

Basheer is not the most common spelling — Asher is, with 92.3% against Basheer's 0.19%.

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 Basheer is used

Across 1910–2025, Basheer was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 960,846 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 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. Basheer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Basheer around the world

Where Basheer 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
    2003–2011
    #4,647
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1980–1980
    #422
    in 1980

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Basheer by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,343
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,411
Best rank ever
#4,018
1991
Peak year
1991
14 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
225
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Basheer

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

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Sibling names for Basheer

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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