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Bassam

#5,416 in 2025Boys' name

Smiling

Bassam has been given to 600 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #5,416 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Bassam, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bassam: meaning, origin, and history

Smiling

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bassam means

Bassam means “smiling”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 600 boys were recorded with the name Bassam between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2015; its best national rank was #3,284 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,821 in 2020 to #5,416 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,789 in 2015 to #5,416 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 Bassam?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,416
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bassam 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bassam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bassams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bassam was born before 2012 — so the typical Bassam is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
600
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Choose a decade

2010s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (190).

Is Bassam 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
−1,208
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,595
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,627
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.7%
Peak was 2015 (28)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,284
1984

Spellings of Bassam

Bassam is not the most common spelling — Hassan is, with 90.2% against Bassam's 4.4%.

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 Bassam is used

Across 1910–2025, Bassam was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,390,284 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 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. Bassam has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bassam around the world

Where Bassam 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
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1979–2025
    #2,999
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2023
    #2,436
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1959–1976
    #651
    in 1976

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.

Bassam by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,416
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,595
Best rank ever
#3,284
1984
Peak year
2015
28 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
600
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Bassam

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

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Sibling names for Bassam

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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