Given name & surname
Basheer
“a bringer of good news”
Basheer is a variant of Bashir. One Arabic interpretation is “a bringer of good news.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Basheer is a variant of Bashir. One Arabic interpretation is “a bringer of good news.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Basheer is a variant of Bashir. An origin associated with Bashir is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Arabic بَشِير (“bringer of good news”); its root is Arabic ب ش ر.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Basheer through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 225
- 225 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,347 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,347 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 480 as a first name in 2020; 405 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.
Basheer’s family of names
Basheer has a related form in Bashir. In English usage, Basheer has a related form in Bashir.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Basheer
- Bashir al-NajafiIraqi Grand Ayatollahborn 1942
- Basheer Al-QudaimiYemeni chess playerborn 1984
- Basheer Garba MohammedNigerian politicianborn 1966
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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