Baas
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: An employer, a boss (frequently used as a form of address)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/baas/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Baas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 24K
- NONorway1 in 56K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 216 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
6,288 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)boss
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Baas is read
(measured from records)Baas is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish44%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Baas in Spanish.
- English33%
An employer, a boss (frequently used as a form of address).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch7.7%
boss
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
boss, chief, superior
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German5.4%
evtl. Patronym zu Sebastian; 442 Träger, sonst wohl zu mnl./nl. baas 'Herr, Meister'
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Dutch 'master, sir'.
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Baas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 6,288 | 1 in 2.7K | 6.3K | Baas | 74 |
| US United States | 1,573 | 1 in 211K | 1.6K | Baas | 216 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Baas | 77 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Baas | 14 |
| FR France | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 245K | 29 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 228 | 1 in 24K | 228 | — | 5 |
| NO Norway | 98 | 1 in 56K | 98 | — | 6 |
| IE Ireland | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Baas | 2 |
6,288 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Baas is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
name from MLG baas master, overseer, boss. Var.: Baasch. 1. German and English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, from MHG bach or ME bache (OHG bah\ OE bcece, bece). 2. German and Low German: occupational name for a Baker.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)- Laurens Gerhard Marinus Baas Beckingb. 1895NLDutch botanist and microbiologist (1894–1963)
- Jan Baasb. 1917NLDutch politician (1917-2012)
- Cas Baasb. 1918NLDutch actor (1918–1999)
- Balduin Baasb. 1922DEGerman actor (1922-2006)
- Pieter Baasb. 1944NLDutch botanist and university teacher (1944-2024)
- Gilberto Keb Baasb. 1977MXMexican boxer
- Maarten Baasb. 1978NLDutch designer (born 1978)
- David Baasb. 1981USAmerican football player, offensive lineman
- Justin Baasb. 2000NLFilipino footballer
- Youri Baasb. 2003NLDutch footballer
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)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 6.3K | #115 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,307 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,798 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,388 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 228 | #6,713 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 98 | #15,718 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 93 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 35 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Baas come from?
- boss Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch.
- How do you pronounce Baas?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /baas/; in Dutch /baːs/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Baas mean?
- In English, An employer, a boss (frequently used as a form of address).
- In which country does Baas have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Baas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baas.
- Where is Baas most common?
- Baas is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Baas?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6,288 people named Baas in 2007, about 1 in 2.7 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/baasThe 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, “Baas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.