Bashir

3,657 people in the United States were counted with the surname Bashir in the 2020 census, making it the 8,619th most common in the country. That is about one person in 81,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,657
Rank: 8,619th
How common: 1 in 81,700
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bashir described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 43.2%
Black, not Hispanic 39.4%
White, not Hispanic 10.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.05%

Notable people called Bashir

Muhammad al-Bashir (born 1983)Syrian engineer and former prime minister of Syria
Maria Bashir (born 1970)Afghan lawyer
Martin Bashir (born 1963)British journalist
Halima Bashir (born 1979)Sudanese doctor and author
Marie Bashir (1930–2026)Australian governor, educator and psychiatrist
Aamir Bashir (born 2000)Indian actor

People named Bashir with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bashir

Also a first name

Bashir has been given to 1,035 American babies as a first name since 1976, peaking in 2020. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.