Bashar
Bashar was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,853 among boys’ names; 382 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bashar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bashar mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bashar is “a male given name from Arabic.”
From Arabic بَشَّار (baššār).
/bəˈʃɑɹ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bashar?
#6,853 among boys’ names, 2025
Bashar fell from #6,707 in 2015 to #6,853 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 6.3 to 7.0 per million.
25 babies in 2004, the peak
Bashar peaked in 2004, when 25 boys were given it, #3,642 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,853 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,027 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,011 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,036 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,364 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,683 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,371 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,684 | 5.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,785 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,707 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #9,747 | 3.6 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,935 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,563 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,385 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,071 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,797 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,249 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,545 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,164 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,642 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,293 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,795 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,407 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,428 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,081 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,764 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,133 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,901 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,818 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,172 | 4.0 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,674 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,497 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,510 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,381 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,190 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,162 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,693 | 3.3 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,120 | 3.7 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,166 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bashar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bashar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bashar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bashar, and how old are they?
An estimated 373 Americans named Bashar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 12 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,571 people named Bashar (6 women and girls, 1,565 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 321 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,642 babies since 1880, Bashar is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 45 babies (27%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bashar
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bashar and names like it
- Compare Bashar and BashirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBashar peaked in 2004.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bashar since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Bashar: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Bashar.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bashar alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.