Basir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: اھرone who looks at;
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/beɪsɪɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Basir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 81K
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Basir itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Басир in TJ Tajikistan.
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)
اھرone who looks at;
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Basir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #322 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Basir | 15 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Basir | 37 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 83K | listed | Basir | 32 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 96K | listed | Basir | 102 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Basir | 19 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Basir | 50 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 43K | listed | Basir | 17 |
| TJ Tajikistan | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Басир | 4 |
| US United States | — | 275 | 1 in 1.2M | 287 | Basir | 124 |
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; the id-github-names register; the muslim-baby-names-2000 register; 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)
Basir 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.
Sharp sighted,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Arabic, (baseer) (es): sagacious, endowed with insight. Al-Baseer ....I!, the All-seeing: one of the names of Allah. i! 4)! sees grew “Allah is All-hearing, All-seeing." (surat Lugmaan 31:28). Abu Basir: a sahaabi.”
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In zlm, hermaphrodite; impotent
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In poz-wmp-pro, sexually impotent
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Turkish, 1. Görüp anlayan. 2. Zeki. 3. Her şeyi görüp anlayan Allah.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Nazif Basirb. 1934IDIndonesian journalist
- Qasim Basirb. 1980USAmerican filmmaker
- Basir AhmadINresearcher
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 45 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 275 | #31,246 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Muslim Baby Names (Nishāt, 2000) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
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)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- What does the name Basir mean, and where does it come from?
- اھرone who looks at; Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- How do you pronounce Basir?
- A machine transcription gives /beɪsɪɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Basir a male or female name?
- Basir 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.
- In which country does Basir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Basir in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled basir.
- How common is the name Basir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 275 people named Basir in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Basir compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Basir is the 322nd most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/basirThe 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, “Basir” — the 322nd most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.