Basim
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Smiling’. Basma ° ‘A smile’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɑˈsim/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Basim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Turkmenistan than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common given name.
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 429(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 491K
- OMOman≈1 in 2.9K
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.
- Turkmenistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 429 (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turkmenistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Başim in TM Turkmenistan.
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)
‘Smiling’. Basma ° ‘A smile’. Budir @ Plural of badr ‘full moon’, from badara ‘to come up unexpectedly’, ‘take by surprise’. Badr-al-Budur is a complimentary expression meaning roughly ‘beauty of beauties’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Basim 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TM Turkmenistan | #50 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 429 | #4 | Başim | 5 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 41K | listed | Basim | 31 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 7K | listed | Basim | 84 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 45K | listed | Basim | 56 |
| OM Oman | #90 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Basim | 23 |
| JO Jordan | #955 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Basim | 41 |
| US United States | — | 678 | 1 in 491K | 676 | Basim | 151 |
| SE Sweden | — | 383 | 1 in 27K | 383 | — | 20 |
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; the wgnd-eg-names register; the islamic-names-dictionary-2005 register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. 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)
Basim is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, smiler, smiling
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, smiling
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Smiling, happy
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
Smiling much
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Latin, accusative singular of basis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Basim Bellob. 1963IQIraqi-Assyrian politician (1963–2024)
- Basim Magdyb. 1977EGEgyptian artist (born 1977)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 676 | #16,565 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 383 | #3,322 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 154 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 152 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 152 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #16,565 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Dictionary of Islamic Names (2005) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- Where does the name Basim come from?
- ‘Smiling’. Basma ° ‘A smile’. Budir @ Plural of badr ‘full moon’, from badara ‘to come up unexpectedly’, ‘take by surprise’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Basim?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑˈsim/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What does the name Basim mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Smiling’. Basma ° ‘A smile’.
- Is Basim a male or female name?
- Basim 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 Basim?
- In the etymology graph, Besim and Bassem are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Basim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Basim in Turkmenistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled başim.
- How common is the name Basim?
- In the United States, the national register counted 678 people named Basim in 2020, about 1 in 491 thousand residents.
- How common is Basim compared with other names?
- In Turkmenistan, Basim is the 50th most common given name of 38,989 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Basim?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/basimThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Basim” — the 50th most common given name in Turkmenistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.