Basi

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Enough—that will do!

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Basi is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

rarermore common
  • INIndia
  • PKPakistan

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
96 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Enough—that will do!

Sources 1

  • The African book of names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Basi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Basi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—1.1KBasi46
PK Pakistan——Basi9
BR Brazil—625——
US United States—425—96
ES Spain—76—5
SE Sweden—13—1

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Basi is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Bassy, Basy, Başi, Basî, Baši

  • Spanish name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Basí, Bāšī, Başi, Bàsì

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Bâși, Bāšī, Baśi, Başi, Bāsī

  • Turkish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Turkmenistan

    Languages: Turkish, Turkmen

    Also written Başi, Baši

  • Hindi given name36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Bangladesh, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Khmer

    Also written Banshi, Bashi, বাঁশি, বাশি, বাশিঁ

  • Arabic name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Başi, Básí, Bãsî, Bàsí, Bāşï

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Basi 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 Iloko, sugar cane wine creating by boiling sugar cane juice on bark of the Java plum (lumboy) and fermenting it inside clay jars containing yeast

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Filipino, basi (Philippine sugarcane liquor)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, dative/ablative singular of basis

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Indonesian, stale, rancid (no longer fresh)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Lingala, alternative form of bǎsí

    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)

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)

Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Basi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.1K#4,972
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—773#4,846
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—625#13,936
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020425#52,687
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010359#56,836
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000272#67,725
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—76#33,508
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—76#33,284
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—13#33,108
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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)

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 Basi mean, and where does it come from?
Enough—that will do! Recorded by The African book of names.
In which country does Basi have the most bearers?
Basi is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled basi.

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Basi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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