Given name & surname
Bashir
“a bringer of good news”
Bashir is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “a bringer of good news.”
Original Arabicبَشِير
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “a bringer of good news.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
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 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bashir through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,035
- 1,035 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 35 babies
- 2025
- 24
- #4,264 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −12%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 24 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,264 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 11.7% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,155 as a first name in 2020; 3,657 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.
Bashir’s family of names
Bashir has a related form in Basheer. Bashir has a related form in Bashear. Bashir has a related form in Basheir.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bashir has relatives in 11 languages. Lines run from its Arabic roots to each of them.
Arabicwhere Bashir comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- بَشِيرArabic
- BachirFrench
- بشيرequivalent
- बशीरMarathi, Hindi
- بشیرUrdu, Persian
- BeşirTurkish
- БаширTajik
- Баши́рRussian
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People named Bashir
- Bashir AbdiBelgian long-distance runner of Somali descentborn 1989
- Bechir Ben SaïdTunisian association football playerborn 1992
- Bashir ibn Sa'dSahabah600–633
- Bashir BadrIndian poet of Urdu1935–2026
- Bashir VaraevRussian judokaborn 1964
- Bashir BabajanzadehIranian wrestlerborn 1989
- Bashir SafarogluSoviet actor (1925-1969)
- Bashir RameevSoviet computer scientist (1918-1994)
- Bashir al-NajafiIraqi Grand Ayatollahborn 1942
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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