Baasha

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Possibly a shortened form of a name meaning 'Baal hears' (Baal-shama), though often associated with the Hebrew root meaning 'offensive' or 'wickedness'

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

Baasha is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. In Kuwait it is the 44th most common surname.

  • KWKuwait≈1 in 1Kas Basha(inferred from the name graph)
  • QAQatar≈1 in 4.3Kfew recordsas Basha
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 4.4Kas Basha

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Baasha itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Egypt (inferred from the name graph)

≈27,000 named Basha, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
211 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Kuwait, est., as Basha

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
BashaLatin(measured from records)
బాషTelugu(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Basha in IN India, EG Egypt, KW Kuwait and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Possibly a shortened form of a name meaning 'Baal hears' (Baal-shama), though often associated with the Hebrew root meaning 'offensive' or 'wickedness'.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Biblical Names Compiled Database

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Baasha 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.

Where Baasha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#219≈27,000 est.≈1 in 4.4K—Basha92
IN India#45414,097as Basha1 in 94K14KBasha180
SA Saudi Arabia#197≈8,000 est.≈1 in 4.4K—Basha87
KW Kuwait#44≈4,800 est.≈1 in 1K—Basha43
YE Yemen—≈4,500 est.≈1 in 9.1K—Basha15
AE United Arab Emirates#240≈2,000 est.≈1 in 5.6K—Basha79
QA Qatar#351≈670 est.≈1 in 4.3K—Basha33

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. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Baasha is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname63 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, India, Türkiye

    Languages: English, Spanish, Hindi

    Also written Basa, Başa, Baasa, Bascha, Bas-A

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Baesa

  • French name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Baasa, Baixa

18 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Baasha is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • His reign exemplifies the recurring biblical theme that usurpers who execute divine judgment often fall into the same sins as those they replaced, thereby incurring the same divine wrath.

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • In English, Biblical name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Baasha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—161#16,443
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—31#60,553
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—19#21,104

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Baasha mean, and where does it come from?
Possibly a shortened form of a name meaning 'Baal hears' (Baal-shama), though often associated with the Hebrew root meaning 'offensive' or 'wickedness'. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
In which country does Baasha have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Basha in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Baasha?
In India, the national register counted 14,097 people named Basha, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
How common is Baasha compared with other names?
In Egypt, Baasha is the 219th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Baasha” — the 219th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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