Bashir
A boys’ name of Arabic origin, meaning bringer of good news, messenger.
Babies a year
8
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#2664
8 babies
Bashir by the numbers
In 2025, 8 babies in England and Wales were named Bashir. In the US, 27 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 31 babies in 2010, making it a 2010s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Bashir. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a messenger
Like Bashir, each of these has a messenger in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Angelmessenger of God6,157 in the US (2017)
- Malachimy messenger or my king2,514 in the US (2017)
- Angelomessenger or angel; from angelos1,020 in the US (2017)
- Malakaimy messenger; variant of Malachi804 in the US (2017)
- Deaconmessenger; from diakonos575 in the US (2017)
- UrielGod is my light; angel name558 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Bashir
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