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Basma

#6,886 in 2025Girls' name

Smile

Basma has been given to 466 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #6,886 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Basma, 2025

1 in 207,000

Basma over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Basma: meaning, origin, and history

Smile

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Basma means

Basma means “smile”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 466 girls were recorded with the name Basma between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2017; its best national rank was #4,712 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,273 in 2020 to #6,886 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,683 in 2015 to #6,886 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.

How common is Basma?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,886
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Basma sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Basma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Basmas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Basma was born before 2014 — so the typical Basma is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
466
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.6% of all recorded uses (194).

Is Basma 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
−451
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+387
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,203
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.2%
Peak was 2017 (29)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,712
2017

Spellings of Basma

Basma is not the most common spelling — Alma is, with 44.5% against Basma's 0.13%.

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 Basma is used

Across 1910–2025, Basma was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,136,945 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Basma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Basma around the world

Where Basma 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
    1998–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    1967–2025
    #746
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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.

Basma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,886
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 387
Best rank ever
#4,712
2017
Peak year
2017
29 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
466
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Basma

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

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Sibling names for Basma

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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