Başan
surname · Latin script
/baʃan/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Başan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 595 people, counted by IBGE. Recorded meaning: food prepared for the deceased, and probably buried with him.
- UYUruguay1 in 68K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 117K
- ARArgentina1 in 185K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- 1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
595 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Basan in TR Türkiye, US United States, BE Belgium.
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.
How to pronounce Başan
- Turkish:/baʃan/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)food prepared for the deceased, and probably buried with him
Cited for this meaning 2
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Başan is found
(measured from records)Başan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 595 | 1 in 356K | 595 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 275K | — | Basan | 37 |
| AR Argentina | 246 | 1 in 185K | 246 | — | — |
| US United States | 154 | 1 in 2.2M | 197 | Basan | 7 |
| PL Poland | 101 | 1 in 379K | 58 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 60 | 1 in 195K | 60 | Basan | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | 50 | 1 in 68K | 50 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 36 | 1 in 117K | 36 | — | — |
595 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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 Başan mean, and where does it come from?
- food prepared for the deceased, and probably buried with him Recorded by Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972) and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- How do you pronounce Başan?
- In Turkish /baʃan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Başan?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 595 people named Başan, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Türkiye, Argentina, United States and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Başan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Başan is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 68 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Başan?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 595 people named Başan, about 1 in 356 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ba%C5%9FanThe 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, “Başan” — ranked 14552nd in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.