Bashir
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bashir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Libya it is the 25th most common given name. In English, recorded as Muslim surname from the Arabic personal name Bashīr, literally 'bringer of good news'.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 822(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 882
- LYLibya≈1 in 2.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 324 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 822 (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Muslim surname from the Arabic personal name Bashīr, literally 'bringer of good news'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bashir is read(measured from records)
Bashir is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English23%
Muslim surname from the Arabic personal name Bashīr, literally 'bringer of good news'
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
a good omen; the foreigner or stranger
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Hindi20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bashir in Hindi.
- Urdu19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bashir in Urdu.
- Swahili8.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bashir in Swahili.
- Arabic5.5%
bringer of good news; Qur'anic name/title
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
bringer of good news, Messenger sent
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
harbinger, bringer of good news
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bashir counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #184 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 882 | listed | Bashir | 99 |
| PK Pakistan | #129 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | listed | Bashir | 131 |
| AF Afghanistan | #64 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 822 | — | Bashir | 26 |
| BD Bangladesh | #452 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Bashir | 67 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #434 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Bashir | 85 |
| LY Libya | #25 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Bashir | 46 |
| US United States | — | 2,155 | 1 in 154K | 3.7K | Bashir | 324 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bashir is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Mansnamnet Bashir (även Bachir) är en form av → Bashar.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bashir ibn Sa'adb. 600IQSahabah
- Bashir Saadawib. 1884LYLibyan politician
- Bashir Hussain Zaidib. 1898INIndian politician (1898-1992)
- Bashir al-Azmab. 1910SYSyrian doctor and politician (1910-1992)
- Bechir Laribib. 1923TNnot in their usual nameTunisian poet and teacher
- Bashir Safaroglub. 1925AZSoviet actor (1925-1969)
- Bashir Badrb. 1935INIndian poet of Urdu
- Bashir Varaevb. 1964RURussian judoka
- Bashir Abdib. 1989SOBelgian long-distance runner of Somali descent
- Bechir Ben Saïdb. 1992TNnot in their usual nameTunisian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 74 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.1K | #7,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 39 | #7,153 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 24 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Bashir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 243 thousand people named Bashir in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bashir.
- What does the name Bashir mean, and where does it come from?
- Muslim surname from the Arabic personal name Bashīr, literally 'bringer of good news' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Bashir a male or female name?
- Bashir is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Bashir?
- In the etymology graph, Béchir is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Bashir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,155 people named Bashir in 2020, about 1 in 154 thousand residents.
- How common is Bashir compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Bashir is the 184th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bashirThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bashir” — the 184th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.