Basir
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ba-SEER
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Basir is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “all-seeing, perceptive”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Basir mean?
Arabic: Arabic basir
“all-seeing, perceptive”
Al-Basir, the All-Seeing, is one of the 99 names of God in Islam.
Is Basir a girl's or a boy's name?
Basir is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Basir in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #12,003among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 340,000 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, 5 boys in the US were named Basir, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2001, with 11 boys. It first appears in the records in 1989.
Half of all the boys named Basir in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Basir in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 8 | #8,982 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,232 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,815 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 6 | #10,797 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,754 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,636 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,593 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,224 |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,182 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,144 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,137 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,449 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,006 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,409 |
| 1999 | 5 | #9,905 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,094 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,446 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,693 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 5 | #7,898 |
Names like Basir
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zahir Zamir Ahmir Amir Hamza Nasir Samir Nazir Muhammad Zayd Umar Jamir
Names related to Basir
More Arabic names
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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, “Basir: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/basir, updated 20 October 2026.