Given name & surname
Basim
“a smiling man”
Basim is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “a smiling man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “a smiling man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Basim through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 299
- 299 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #9,827 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −24%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,827 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 678 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Basim’s family of names
Basim has a related form in Bassam. Basim has a related form in Bahseam. Basim has a related form in Bahseem.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Bassamvariant
- Bassimlikely variant
- Bahsymvariant
- Bahsiemvariant
- Bahseimvariant
- Bahseamvariant
- Bahseemvariant
- Bahsimvariant
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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