Bashir

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bashir is a given name, most frequently recorded in Algeria, where it is the 43rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Urdu, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Muslim surname from the Arabic personal name Bashīr, literally 'bringer of good news'.

rarermore common
  • DZAlgeria1 in 165◐
  • LYLibya1 in 1.2K
  • NGNigeria1 in 1.9K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈7.6K ●

across 8 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
276 ●

246K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 6.1K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

BashirLatin · English●206K records
БаширCyrillic · Russian●12K records
বশিরBengali · Bangla●86 records
บาชีรThai · Thai●11 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Башир in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine and Bechir in TN Tunisia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Muslim surname from the Arabic personal name Bashīr, literally 'bringer of good news'

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Bashir is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DZ Algeria#43147,13882 rec.—listedBashir7
IN India—113,06793K rec.—3KBashir94
PK Pakistan#13342,8494.9K rec.—listedBashir117
NG Nigeria#17239,23753K rec.—listedBashir97
RU Russia—11,27216K rec.—#441Башир114
SY Syria—3,7474.7K rec.—1Bashir21
GB United Kingdom—3,3077.5K rec.—listedBashir143
FR France—2,435△3 rec.1 in 28K2.4K—2
SA Saudi Arabia#5262,2551.2K rec.——Bashir78
US United States—2,11638K rec.1 in 157K3.7KBashir276
TR Türkiye—1,8142.5K rec.——Bashir17
BD Bangladesh#5931,7302K rec.——Bashir64

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English206K41%
  • Urdu64K13%
  • Hindi61K12%
  • 51K10%
  • Swahili32K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English205,77941%
Urdu64,25513%
Hindi60,82012%
50,72710%
Swahili31,6806%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Bashir is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name70K records spelled Bashir3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Ethiopia

    Also written Bashīr, Băshir

  • Indonesian given name11K records spelled Bashir3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, India, Malaysia, Pakistan

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Bàshïr

  • Spanish given name7.6K records spelled Bashir8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, India, Nigeria

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bashîr, Bashīr, Bášhįr, Băšĥíŕ, Bãshír

  • French given name5.6K records spelled Bashir4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, India, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Bashīr, Bashïr

  • Danish given name3.3K records spelled Bashir7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, India

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Băśhìř

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Bashir is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, bringer of good news; Qur'anic name/title

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In Swedish, Mansnamnet Bashir (även Bachir) är en form av → Bashar.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Arabic, bringer of good news, Messenger sent

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, harbinger, bringer of good news

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In English, a good omen; the foreigner or stranger

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01020301920194019601980200027 · 1982

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Bashir in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1918–2015
Yearrecords
19181
19241
19251
19281
19291
19302
19311
19321
19332
19341
19354
19362
19371
19382
19392
19403
19415
19421
19431
19443
19456
19465
19472
19485
19495
19507
19515
19526
19536
19545
19554
19564
19576
195811
19595
196011
19618
19622
196311
19648
196515
19668
196714
196811
196911
197018
197110
197215
197312
197413
197518
197611
197720
197817
197911
198021
198113
198227
19839
19846
19857
198610
198714
198812
19893
19904
19911
19923
19936
19942
19952
19962
19972
20101
20114
20121
20131
20143
20151

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 79 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Bashir ibn Sa'ad, b. 600Bashir Saadawi, b. 1884Bashir Hussain Zaidi, b. 1898Bashir al-Azma, b. 1910Bechir Laribi, b. 1923Bashir Safaroglu, b. 1925Bashir Badr, b. 1935Bashir Varaev, b. 1964Bashir Abdi, b. 1989Bechir Ben Saïd, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 72 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Bashir
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—6.5K#820
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.7K#8,619
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.8K#11,443
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.1K#7,153
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.7K#1,197
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.6K#16,283
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—992#1,148
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—822#5,265
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—822#5,261
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020587—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—520#2,440
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025496—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 377 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bashir?
We estimate roughly 7.6 thousand people bear Bashir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Bashir have the most bearers?
Bashir is most frequently recorded in Algeria, where it is most often spelled bashir.
How common is Bashir compared with other names?
In Algeria, Bashir is the 43rd most common given name of 30,102 given names recorded there.
Is Bashir a male or female name?
Bashir is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Bashir mean?
Recorded meaning: Muslim surname from the Arabic personal name Bashīr, literally 'bringer of good news'
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bashir” — the 43rd most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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