Basra
loc · Latin script
Meaning: prov & town, Iraq (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), 2018
Basra is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 80Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 262K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 480K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Başra in TR Türkiye.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)prov & town, Iraq
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Basra counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Basra is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A port city in southeastern Iraq.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Uzbek, Basra (a city in Iraq)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, a prediction
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Irākas dienvidaustrumos, Šatelarabas krastā, 90 km no Persijas līča, muhāfazas administratīvais centrs, 837000 iedzīvotāju (2007. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, muhāfaza Irākas dienvidaustrumos, robežojas ar Mutannas, Dīkāras un Meisānas muhāfazu, kā arī ar Irānu un Kuveitu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Asif Basrab. 1967INIndian actor
- Geeta Basrab. 1984INBritish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Basra mean, and where does it come from?
- prov & town, Iraq Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Which countries have the most people named Basra?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Basra in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled başra. After it come India, Pakistan, Egypt and Syria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Basra?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 39 people named Basra, about 1 in 262 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Basra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/basraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Basra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.