Bashir
Masculine · “bringer of good news”
Bashir is one who brings good news, and the root behind it also gives the Arabic word for skin — because good news shows in the face.
How old is the name Bashir?
Bashir first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Bashir alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 1,000 people named Bashir are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Bashir most popular?
Bashir peaked in 1979, reaching #2568 nationally. Today it ranks #4249, 1,681 places below that high. See the whole 1979 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Bashir
The connection between announcing good news and the skin is explicit in the Arabic lexicographers: news that pleases changes the face, so the root covers both. Bashir is applied to the Prophet in the Qur'an as a bringer of good tidings. The name is used across the Arab world, Somalia, Nigeria and South Asia, and reaches American records from all of them.
Meaning
bringer of good news
From an Arabic root meaning to bring glad tidings; bushra is good news and bashara is to announce it. The same root gives bashara, the skin or complexion, on the reasoning that news shows in a person's face.
Pronouncing Bashir
ba-SHEER
Two syllables with the stress on the long second. English speakers often say BASH-eer.
Nicknames for Bashir
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1976
- Most boys named
- 202035 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2568reached in 1979
- Change vs 2024
- +14.3%24 in 2025, from 21
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Bashir in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Basheer in Arabic — spelling variant
- Bashir in Urdu — same name
- Beşir in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Ohio.
Bashirs among us
people named Bashir are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 71,170 born in 2025 was named Bashir
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Crescencio test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Bashir's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Crescencio climbed just as high around 1926, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Crescencio's path sketches the road Bashir is walking now.
Bashir sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Bashir beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Bashir in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a genuinely charming link between news and the face.
- Six letters and two syllables, easy to write and to say.
- Recognized across the Arab world, Africa and South Asia.
- The Bash clip is an English verb about hitting and children will use it.
- The stress moves to the front in English mouths.
- Bashir and Basheer are both in use and neither is dominant in English.
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Frequently asked
- How many Bashirs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Bashir are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Bashir in 2025?
- Bashir ranks #4249 among US boy names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Bashir?
- About 1 in every 71,170 US boys born in 2025 was named Bashir — 24 in all.
- Will my child share the name Bashir with classmates?
- Bashir will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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