Boys' name · since 1997
Basit
53 babies named Basit in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #21,733 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 53
- born since 1997
- 2000s
- peak decade
Basit is not among the current top-ranked boys names; 53 have been recorded since 1997.
Basit has 53 recorded births among boys since 1997, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1997 to 2024.
- #21,733 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 53 born since 1997
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Basit ranks #21,733 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 53 born since 1997, peaking in the 2000s.
- #21,733 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 53
- born since 1997
- 2000s
- peak decade
Basit's 53 recorded births place it above 51.98% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Basit's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Basit splits its recorded history at 2009: 53% of all births land in the more recent half, 47% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2007 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1997 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Basit popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1997–2024
- Peak year (1997)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 28 years of records
Basit by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (18 births, 34% of the file).
2000s was Basit's strongest decade.
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 34% of all-time use.
Basit births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
13 births
- 2000s
2000s
18 births
- 2010s
2010s
17 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 18 births (34% of all-time use).
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- Basit's decade-level peak was the 2000s (18 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Basit: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1997)
Similar record span (~27 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1997–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Basit draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.