Basak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A barangay of Badian, Cebu, Philippines
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɑsək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Basak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 4K
- INIndia1 in 13Kas Bosak
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 Basak 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
101,267 named Bosak
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Başak in TR Türkiye, 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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A barangay of Badian, Cebu, Philippines.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Basak 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #472 | 101,267as Bosak | 1 in 13K | 101K | Basak | 152 |
| BD Bangladesh | #158 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | listed | Basak | 54 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Başak | 90 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,111as Bosak | 1 in 18K | 1.1K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,212as Bosak | 1 in 274K | 1.2K | Basak | 142 |
| HR Croatia | — | 796as Bosak | 1 in 5.3K | 796 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | — | 533as Bosák | 1 in 10K | 533 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 52 | 1 in 225K | 52 | Başak | 9 |
101,267 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling bosak. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Basak 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 tbk, puddle on table or floor where liquid has been spilt; rice paddy; irrigated rice
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Cebuano, ricefield; field of wet-cultivated rice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tiy, land made into rice paddies
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In yka, rice paddy, wet rice field
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mrw, rice paddy; swamp or marsh
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Adam Başakb. 1934TRborn:1934|; Basak, Adam 1934-
- Subimal Basakb. 1939INIndian writer and poet
- Alina Basakb. 1941PLPolish agronomist
- Arun Kumar Basakb. 1941BDscientist and physicist of Bangladesh
- Radhanath BasakBengali writer
- Grzegorz W BasakPLPolish hematologist and researcher
- Ümit BaşakTRTurkish writer
- Chandra Bhanu BasakINresearcher
- Anirban BasakINIndian statistician, PhD Stanford
- Indrani BasakUSPh.D. University of Pittsburgh 1986
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 33 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 3.8K | #1,924 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 639 | #37,449 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 458 | #46,487 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 406 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 406 | #8,148 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 397 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 397 | #8,177 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 324 | #58,553 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 270 | #1,860 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 52 | #25,366 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
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 Basak mean, and where does it come from?
- A barangay of Badian, Cebu, Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Basak?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑsək/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Basak have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 101 thousand people named Bosak, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Basak?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 52 people named Basak in 2008, about 1 in 225 thousand residents.
- How common is Basak compared with other names?
- In India, Basak is the 472nd most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/basakThe 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, “Basak” — the 472nd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.