Basco
surname · Latin script
Meaning: obsolete spelling of vasco (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/basko/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Basco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Basco is also written บสโก in Thai.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 51Kfew records
- BOBolivia≈1 in 54Kfew records
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Basco in other scripts: Thai
(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.
How to pronounce Basco
- Spanish:/basko/(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)obsolete spelling of vasco
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Basco is found
(measured from records)Basco 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 | #601 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Basco | 58 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Basco | 11 |
| US United States | — | 1,436 | 1 in 232K | 1.7K | Basco | 160 |
| RE Réunion | #330 | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Basco | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 86K | listed | Basco | 42 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Basco | 12 |
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; the xinhua-italian-manual 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)Basco is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bik, Basco (a municipality, the capital of Batanes, Cagayan Valley, Philippines)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, vocative singular of bască
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)- Dante Bascob. 1975USAmerican actor and rapper
- Dion Bascob. 1977USAmerican actor
- Ella Jay Bascob. 2006USAmerican actress
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Basco mean, and where does it come from?
- obsolete spelling of vasco Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Basco?
- In Spanish /basko/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Basco?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Basco in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled basco. After it come Indonesia, United States, Réunion and Italy; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Basco?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,436 people named Basco in 2010, about 1 in 232 thousand residents.
- How common is Basco compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Basco is the 601st most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bascoThe 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, “Basco” — the 601st most common surname in the Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.