Bashar
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #6,799 for boys
Bashar is a boys' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).
What does Bashar mean?
Arabic
A male given name from Arabic.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Bashar a girl's or a boy's name?
Bashar is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Bashar in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2001, with 6 boys.
Bashar in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | #3,092 |
| 2009 | 4 | #3,909 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #4,204 |
| 2005 | 3 | #3,992 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 3 | #3,593 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 6 | #2,049 |
How popular is Bashar in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,799among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 140,000 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, 12 boys in the US were named Bashar, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 25 boys. It first appears in the records in 1973.
Half of all the boys named Bashar in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Bashar in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,799 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,333 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,548 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,138 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,671 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,636 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,495 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,353 |
| 2009 | 8 | #8,980 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,758 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,169 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,521 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,089 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,632 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,265 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,789 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,383 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,417 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,036 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,008 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,862 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,693 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,120 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,608 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,420 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,453 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,327 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,142 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,139 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,617 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,056 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,099 |
Names like Bashar
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Umar Hamza Muhammad Ahmed Abdullah Amir Mustafa Musa Ammar Hassan Khalid Zayd
Names related to Bashar
More Arabic names
Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Kairo Safa
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Bashar: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bashar, updated 20 October 2026.