Bushra
Fewer than 30 people in Poland carry it, and none have been given it since at least 2000: most Poles will never meet a Bushra. The name comes through Arabic use from a Hebrew root meaning "good news".
Bushra Pronunciation
What Bushra means
Where Bushra comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bushra begins with a Semitic root, b-s-r, that turns on the idea of bringing good news. In Hebrew that same root gives besorah, a word for tidings and later for the gospel. The name most people meet as Arabic, Bushra, rests on the older stem. Its short meaning stays plain: good news.
In Arabic the word bushrā sounds like an announcement, the call that something long awaited has come. So the name reads as one small piece of that announcement, given to a girl at birth.
On a Polish class register, Bushra stands among the Zuzannas and the Nadias, a clear mark of family with Arabic-speaking roots. It does not shorten, and it takes no Polish diminutive. A teacher reads it once. The word holds without translation, dobra nowina, good news.
How many people are named Bushra
1 in 939326 women in Poland is named Bushra. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8022 among female names.
Bushra as a middle name
Bushra is a first name for 27 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5255th, between Burkay (4) and Buǧrahan (4).
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#5253 Burghard4
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#5254 Burkay4
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#5255 Bushra4
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#5256 Buǧrahan4
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#5257 Caetano4