Bash
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- BASH
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #6,442 for boys
Bash is a boys' name of Greek origin, meaning “venerable”. In 2025 it ranked 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).
What does Bash mean?
Greek: short form of Sebastian
“venerable”
Is Bash a girl's or a boy's name?
Bash is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Bash in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,442among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 130,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 13 boys in the US were named Bash, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,976th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 21 boys. It first appears in the records in 2014.
Half of all the boys named Bash in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Bash in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,697 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,624 |
| 2020 | 14 | #5,976 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,808 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 8 | #8,835 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,180 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,102 |
Names like Bash
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zayd Kash Ash Azaiah Jahseh Dash Asaiah Musa Ayaan Khaza Zayn Zahir
More Greek names
Luca Theodore Sophia George Theo Lucas Sofia Alexander Sebastian Penelope Phoebe Margot Luke Chloe Sophie Zoe
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Bash: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bash, updated 20 October 2026.