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Bassem

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Basim

Bassem has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 1984. 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 2013, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Bassem, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bassem: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Basim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bassem means

Bassem is a alternate transcription of Basim.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Bassem is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈbaː.sim/ for Bassem.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Bassem → Basim. The family’s meaning is “smiling”, recorded in the naming reference for Basim.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Basim.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 boys were recorded with the name Bassem between 1984 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2013; its best national rank was #6,412 in 1984.

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 Bassem?

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

When Bassems were born

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

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
72
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.2% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Bassem 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2013 (8)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,412
1984

Spellings of Bassem

Bassem is not the most common spelling — Nasser is, with 15.4% against Bassem's 0.84%.

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.

Bassem around the world

Where Bassem 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
    2024–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1975–2025
    #3,612
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1984–1984
    #455
    in 1984

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.

Bassem 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
#6,412
1984
Peak year
2013
8 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
72
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bassem

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

BasemBasileBasselBassilBasharBasirBasheerBassamBastionBasimBashBastienBasitKasemBashawnKassemBascumBashirBashanBaselBasseyAsemQasemBascom

Sibling names for Bassem

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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