Basir

#12,272 in 2025Boys' name

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Basir has been given to 182 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #12,272 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Basir, 2025

1 in 663,000

Basir over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Basir: meaning, origin, and history

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Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Basir means

Basir means “wise”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Basir is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ba.ˈsˤiːr/ for Basir.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 182 boys were recorded with the name Basir between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2001; its best national rank was #5,484 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,755 in 2020 to #12,272 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,288 in 2015 to #12,272 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Basir?

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: #12,272; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 459,581 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Basir 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 Basir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Basirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Basir was born before 2008 — so the typical Basir is around 17 today.

Median birth year: 2008; About 17 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 34.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 76.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 182; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (63).

Is Basir 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: −3,179; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −1,517; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +16; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.00×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 45.5%; Peak was 2001 (11)
Years since peak: 24; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,484; 1994

Spellings of Basir

Basir is not the most common spelling — Amir is, with 25.9% against Basir's 0.08%.

Amir25.9%55,747
Nasir8.3%17,917
Blair7.0%15,009
Basil6.1%13,172
Yahir5.8%12,431
Samir5.1%11,094
Jamir4.3%9,314
Baker3.8%8,234

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 Basir is used

Across 1910–2025, Basir was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 366,887 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Pennsylvania1 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. Basir has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Basir around the world

Where Basir 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
2016–2016
#4,810
in 2016

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

Basir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #12,272
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 1,517
Best rank ever: #5,484; 1994
Peak year: 2001; 11 that year
First recorded: 1989
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 182
Count in 2025: 5

Names similar to Basir

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

Basem Basim Bash Basel Bassel Kysir Bashar Basheer Kasir Bassam Nysir Bastion Bastien Yahsir Ahsir Tysir Aasir Aesir Basile Yaasir Masir Basit Bashir Yassir

Sibling names for Basir

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

For a sister

Shyann Sydni Sydnie Alysa Halie Jacquelin Gabriel Cydney

For a brother

Jarod Garret Samual Donavon Elizabeth Shamar Aaden Zakary

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