Bushra
A girls’ name of Arabic origin, meaning good news, glad tidings.
Babies a year
23
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#1362
23 babies
Bushra by the numbers
In 2025, 23 babies in England and Wales were named Bushra. In the US, 38 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 49 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Bushra. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Basra5 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean joy
Like Bushra, each of these has joy in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Abigailmy father's joy10,557 in the US (2017)
- Asherhappy, blessed6,076 in the US (2017)
- Edendelight, paradise594 in England and Wales (2025)
- Jocelyncheerful or joyful; from Jocundus1,828 in the US (2017)
- Tatumcheerful or bringer of joy1,159 in the US (2017)
- Joyjoy; gladness and pleasure971 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Bushra
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