Bashir
Bashir was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,263 among boys’ names; 1,035 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Bashir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bashir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bashir mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bashir is “a male given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “bringer of good news” (بَشِير).
Borrowed from Arabic بَشِير (bašīr, “bringer of good news”).
/bəˈʃiɹ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bashir?
#4,263 among boys’ names, 2025
Bashir fell from #4,088 in 2015 to #4,263 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 13.0 to 14.1 per million.
35 babies in 2020, the peak
Bashir peaked in 2020, when 35 boys were given it, #3,207 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,263 | 14.1 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,720 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,009 | 15.8 |
| 2022 | 28 | #3,893 | 16.0 |
| 2021 | 28 | #3,822 | 16.0 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,207 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,900 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,100 | 13.8 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,894 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,532 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #4,088 | 13.0 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,021 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,669 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,013 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,611 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,464 | 16.2 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,293 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,797 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,651 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,109 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,821 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,025 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 30 | #3,121 | 15.2 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,558 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,408 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,543 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,487 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,096 | 13.1 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,071 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,553 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,297 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,770 | 13.5 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,830 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,111 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,019 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,315 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,282 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,862 | 9.9 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,261 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,899 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,722 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,283 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 15 | #2,929 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,604 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,431 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,868 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,587 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,081 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,671 | 9.7 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,107 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bashir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bashir has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bashir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bashir, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,035 Americans ever recorded as Bashir. The median Bashir alive today is 20 years old; half are between 10 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 2,155 people named Bashir (39 women and girls, 2,116 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 862 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 63 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 243 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 353 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 348 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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, Bashir is the most given (63% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 45 babies (53%), again the 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 Bashir
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 Bashir and names like it
- Compare Bashir and BasharBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBashir peaked in 2020.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bashir since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Bashir: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Bashir.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bashir alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.