Basel
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Basel is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 69K
- CZCzechia1 in 86K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Basel, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Basel 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.
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); 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)Basel is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Basel (the capital city of Basel-Stadt canton, Switzerland)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Toponymischer Herkunftsname zum Ortsnamen Basel; Etymologie unklar. Bearer count: 358.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In Arabic, Bravery is his prize
as a nameThe book of African names
In English, city, Switzerland
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Sudanese Muslim: 'brave'
as a nameAfrican Names
In German, from the place name Basel
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Edgar Baselb. 1930DEboxer (1930–1977)
- Bassel Aqelb. 1938PSnot in their usual namePalestinian politician
- Basel Mahdi Hammadib. 1943IQIraqi footballer (1943-2020)
- Bassel al-Assadb. 1962SYnot in their usual nameSyrian engineer, soldier, politician, and eldest son of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad
- Basil Al-Khatibb. 1962SYnot in their usual namePalestinian Syrian director
- B.A. Abbasb. 1963IQnot in their usual nameIraqi biologist
- Basil Nasserb. 1966PSnot in their usual namePalestinian politician
- Mejla Baselb. 1971film director
- Bassel Khartabilb. 1981SYnot in their usual namefree culture and democracy activist, Syrian political prisoner
- Basel ShbitaILcomputer scientist
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,570 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 884 | #28,656 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 125 | #13,601 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 125 | #6,987 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 64 | #8,431 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 8 | — |
| 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
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- In which country does Basel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Basel in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled basel.
- How common is the name Basel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,187 people named Basel in 2010, about 1 in 280 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Basel?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baselThe 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, “Basel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.