Bassa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Liberian and Cameroonian ethnic groups; language name; also central Nigerian people (Basa)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/basa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bassa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- TGTogo≈1 in 29K
- NLNetherlands1 in 54K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Liberian and Cameroonian ethnic groups; language name; also central Nigerian people (Basa)
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bassa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 788 | — | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Bassa | 30 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 261K | listed | Bassa | 20 |
| ES Spain | 679 | 1 in 74K | 679 | Bassa | 68 |
| PL Poland | 430 | 1 in 89K | 219 | Bassa | 30 |
| NL Netherlands | 318 | 1 in 54K | 318 | Bassa | 16 |
| TG Togo | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 1 | — | 1 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Bassa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Obsolete spelling of bashaw.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, forma feminina de Basso
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Bassi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Romansh, The parts of Switzerland that are lower than Grisons.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, feminine singular of basso
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ferrer Bassab. 1285ESGothic painter and illuminator from 14th century. He introduced Italian style in Crown of Aragon (1285-1348)
- Arnau Bassab. 1350ESCatalan gothic painter
- Josep Maria de Pallejà i de Bassab. 1852ESSpanish politician
- Maria Gràcia Bassa i Rocasb. 1883ESSpanish writer, folklorist and professor (1883-1961)
- Ladislao López Bassab. 1905ESSpanish military personnel
- Dolors Bassa i Collb. 1959ESSpanish politician, trade unionist and teacher
- Fidel Bassab. 1962COColombian boxer
- Montserrat Bassa i Collb. 1965ESSpanish politician
- David Bassa i Cabanasb. 1971ESCatalan journalist and writer
- Jaime Bassab. 1977CLChilean lawyer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 788 | #660 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 679 | #6,233 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 679 | #6,228 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 318 | #6,440 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 219 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 219 | #15,060 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 211 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 211 | #15,334 |
| TG Togo | Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024) | 2024 | 1 | #12 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bassa mean, and where does it come from?
- Liberian and Cameroonian ethnic groups; language name; also central Nigerian people (Basa) Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Bassa?
- A machine transcription gives /basa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Bassa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Bassa in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bassa?
- In Spain, the national register counted 679 people named Bassa, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bassaThe 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, “Bassa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.