Bassam is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Bassam in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Bassam in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Bassam by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Bassam ranks at #4,010. That means there are 4,009 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Bassam.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Bassam. Boys named Bassam have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,871 Bassam ranked higher than ever before in 1979. By comparison, there have been 98 years in which the first name Bassam has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1997. In general, parents name their sons Bassam only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Bassam was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Bassam continues to be a precious jewel: 18 newborns were named Bassam that year, ranking #4,483 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Bassam, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Bassam is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 25 Americans in total bear this name. And these 25 men are located in only four states: California, Illinois, Michigan and Pennsylvania (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Bassam and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Bassam in relation to it’s male population is Illinois. And yet even there, only one in 817,053 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Bassam present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Bassam is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Bassam and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Bassam, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Apple
Sun
Sun
Apple
Mouse
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Bassam
Bassam
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
A
S
S
A
M
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
A
S
S
A
M
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Bassam sounds like this:
