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Bashir

#4,263 in 2025Boys' name

Bringer of good news

Bashir has been given to 1,035 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #4,263 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Bashir, 2025

1 in 138,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bashir: meaning, origin, and history

Bringer of good news

Arabic

What Bashir means

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic بَشِير (bašīr, “bringer of good news”).

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Bashir is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Bashir is pronounced /bəˈʃiɹ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,035 boys were recorded with the name Bashir between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2020; its best national rank was #2,587 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,207 in 2020 to #4,263 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,088 in 2015 to #4,263 in 2025.

How common is Bashir?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,263
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bashir 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bashir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bashirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bashir was born before 2005 — so the typical Bashir is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,035
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 26.4% of all recorded uses (273).

Is Bashir 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
+457
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,056
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−175
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.96×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.6%
Peak was 2020 (35)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,587
1979

Spellings of Bashir

Bashir is not the most common spelling — Asher is, with 61.1% against Bashir's 0.57%.

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 Bashir is used

Across 1910–2025, Bashir was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 227,833 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  3. 3Minnesota1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 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. Bashir has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bashir around the world

Where Bashir 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
    1996–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    2011–2023
    #6,795
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1992–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1977–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bashir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,263
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,056
Best rank ever
#2,587
1979
Peak year
2020
35 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,035
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Bashir

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

BassamBasharBasselBasilioBaselBascomBastianBastienBasimBastionHashirSahirBasheerMihirMahirZaahirBasirVadhirMaahirTahirSaahirBasemAashirZyhir

Sibling names for Bashir

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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