boys:
988 births since 1976
#3604 (21st percentile)
overall:
988 births since 1976
#6751 (13th percentile)
The name Bashir is the #6,751 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 988 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 12.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,604 (21.4% percentile) for all time with 988 births since 1976.
Bashir first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (first recorded for boys in 1976).
For boys, Bashir reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #871) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Bashir ranks #889 for boys (2.4% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 77.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bashir".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Bashir. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Bashir is pronounced as buh-SHEAR, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is buh-SHIHR, at 37.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like B AH0 SH IY1 R) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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