Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bashar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 382
- 382 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 12
- #6,857 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +72%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 12 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,857 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 25 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,571 as a first name in 2020; 483 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bashar’s family of names
In English usage, Bashar has a conventional equivalent in the French form BACHAR. In English usage, Bashar has a conventional equivalent in the German form BASCHAR. In English usage, Bashar has a related form in BASHSHAR.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bashar has relatives in 19 languages. Lines run from its Arabic roots to each of them.
Arabicwhere Bashar comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 18
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bashar
- Pop SmokeAmerican rapper (1999–2020)
- Bashar WardaChaldean Catholic archbishopborn 1969
- Bashar MuradPalestinian singer and LGBT+ activistborn 1993
- Bashar JaafariSyrian diplomatborn 1956
- Bashar Shbibindependent filmmaker and producerborn 1959
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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