Bashar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Bashar är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’bärare av goda nyheter’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bəʃɑr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bashar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 998(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 5.6K
- USUnited States1 in 212K
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)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 998 (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Bashar är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’bärare av goda nyheter’. Det har samma rot som mansnamnet → Bashir och kvinnonamnet → Bushra.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bashar 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 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Bashar | 46 |
| SY Syria | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 998 | — | Bashar | 25 |
| CN China | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Bashar | 6 |
| US United States | 1,571 | 1 in 212K | 1.6K | Bashar | 204 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Bashar | 16 |
| SE Sweden | 919 | 1 in 11K | 919 | — | 25 |
| IL Israel | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Bashar | 15 |
| NO Norway | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 376 | — | 6 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Bashar is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, man, mankind
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, : man, mankind. ll age eSlte Gt LI Ls! Ja sal, atl aSgil Las! "Say: (O Muhammad!) I am only a man like you. My Lord inspires in me that your God is only one God." (surat al- Kahf 18:110)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Bashshar ibn Burdb. 714IQnot in their usual namePersian poet who wrote in Arabic (714–783)
- Bashshār ʿAwwād Maʿrūfb. 1940IQnot in their usual nameIraqi thinker, historian and writer specializing in manuscripts
- Bashar Jaafarib. 1956SYSyrian diplomat
- Bachar Kouatlyb. 1958FRnot in their usual nameChess player; journalist, and activist
- Bashar Shbibb. 1959CAindependent filmmaker and producer
- Bashar al-Assadb. 1965SYPresident of Syria from 2000 to 2024
- Bashar Wardab. 1969IQChaldean Catholic archbishop
- Bachar Mar-Khaliféb. 1983LBnot in their usual nameLebanese musician, singer and pianist
- Bashar Muradb. 1993PSPalestinian singer and LGBT+ activist
- Pop Smokeb. 1999USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper (1999–2020)
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 51 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 483 | #47,351 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 347 | #58,481 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 220 | #80,216 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 62 | #10,563 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 46 | #27,473 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- 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
- How do you pronounce Bashar?
- A machine transcription gives /bəʃɑr/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What does the name Bashar mean?
- Recorded meaning: Bashar är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’bärare av goda nyheter’.
- Is Bashar a male or female name?
- Bashar 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 Bashar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Bashar in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bashar.
- How common is the name Bashar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,571 people named Bashar in 2020, about 1 in 212 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/basharThe 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, “Bashar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.