Bâss
surname · Latin script
Bâss is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A respelling of base under the influence of Italian basso (“low”).
- USUnited States1 in 5.8K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 824K
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 513
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 513 (inferred from the name graph)
57,044 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bass in US United States, BR Brazil, CH Switzerland and 2 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)A respelling of base under the influence of Italian basso (“low”).
Cited for this meaning 6
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bâss 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 57,044 | 1 in 5.8K | 57K | Bass | 179 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 297 | 1 in 28K | 297 | Bass | 13 |
| BR Brazil | — | 257 | 1 in 824K | 257 | Bass | 63 |
| PL Poland | — | 162 | 1 in 236K | 89 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 136 | 1 in 368K | 136 | Bass | 30 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 105 | 1 in 513 | 105 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 56 | 1 in 99K | 56 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 48 | 1 in 114K | 48 | — | 1 |
| CV Cape Verde | #275 | — | — | — | Bass | 3 |
57,044 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bâss mean, and where does it come from?
- A respelling of base under the influence of Italian basso (“low”). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Bâss have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 57 thousand people named Bâss, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bass.
- Where is Bâss most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bâss is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 513 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bâss?
- In the United States, the national register counted 57,044 people named Bâss in 2010, about 1 in 5.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Bâss compared with other names?
- In Cape Verde, Bâss is the 275th most common surname of 2,258 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A2ssThe 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, “Bâss” — the 275th most common surname in Cape Verde. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.