Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Arabic بشارة (bišāra); 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 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bishara through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 28
- 28 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1972
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1976. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1972. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 209 as a first name in 2020; 700 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.
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