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Basit

Boys' name

From Arabic بسيط; literal meaning unconfirmed

Basit has been given to 53 babies in the U.S. since 1997. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1997, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Basit, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Basit: meaning, origin, and history

From Arabic بسيط; literal meaning unconfirmed

Arabic

What Basit means

Basit is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Basit is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Basit comes through Arabic بسيط.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 53 boys were recorded with the name Basit between 1997 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1997; its best national rank was #7,352 in 1997.

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 Basit?

Basit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Basit 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Basit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Basits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Basit was born before 2009 — so the typical Basit is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
53
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Basit 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (7)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,352
1997

Spellings of Basit

Basit is not the most common spelling — Nasir is, with 26.8% against Basit's 0.08%.

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.

Basit around the world

Where Basit 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
    1996–2022
    #3,450
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2003–2003
    #500
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Central Statistics Office. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.

Basit by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,352
1997
Peak year
1997
7 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
53
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Basit

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

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Sibling names for Basit

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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