Basan
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative form of basil (a tanned sheepskin)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bəzən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Basan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 38K
- UYUruguay1 in 68K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third-person plural present indicative of basar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Basan is read(measured from records)
Basan is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- English28%
Alternative form of basil (a tanned sheepskin)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish25%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Basan in Turkish.
- Spanish21%
third-person plural present indicative of basar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi6.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Basan in Hindi.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Basan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Basan | 11 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Basan | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 595 | 1 in 356K | 595 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 246 | 1 in 185K | 246 | — | — |
| US United States | 154 | 1 in 2.2M | 197 | Basan | 20 |
| UY Uruguay | 50 | 1 in 68K | 50 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 36 | 1 in 117K | 36 | — | — |
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; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Basan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In otk, food prepared for the deceased, and probably buried with him
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
In Asturian, third-person plural present subjunctive of basar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, accusative singular of basa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Scottish Gaelic, plural of bas
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)
- Pierre-François Basanb. 1723FRFrench printmaker and editor (1723-1797)
- Walter Basanb. 1920DEGerman author (1920–1999)
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 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 595 | #14,552 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 246 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 197 | #98,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 154 | #113,791 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 138 | #116,835 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 50 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 36 | #16,369 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 21 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Basan come from?
- third-person plural present indicative of basar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Basan?
- A machine transcription gives /bəzən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Basan mean?
- In English, Alternative form of basil (a tanned sheepskin)
- In which country does Basan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Basan in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled basan.
- How common is the name Basan?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 595 people named Basan, about 1 in 356 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/basanThe 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, “Basan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.