He changed his name from Bashshar

"Ms. Rifai said that among the refugees, she had encountered a 4-year-old boy named Bashar who said he was ashamed to have the same given name as Mr. Assad and had decided to call himself Mohammed instead."  Yes, because he would be beaten up in that camp and in that vicinity for that name, just as families who named their children Saddam in Iraq later had to changed the names of those sons especially that some of the parents switched sides and fought with the "liberators.