Basic

surname · Latin script

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

/beɪsɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Basic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 688(measured from records)
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 832
  • SISlovenia1 in 2.5K

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.

Croatia (measured from records)

6,147 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
103 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 688 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BasicLatin(measured from records)
БасицCyrillic(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.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Korean

[컴퓨터], Beginner󰡑s All　purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

Sources 1

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Basic 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.

Where Basic is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia—6,1471 in 6886.1KBasic69
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#225≈4,600 est.≈1 in 832—Basic19
CD Congo - Kinshasa—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 55K—Basic1
SI Slovenia—8481 in 2.5K848Basic10
RS Serbia—≈850 est.≈1 in 8.3K—Basic22
SE Sweden—6371 in 16K637Basic14

6,147 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021, counting the spelling bašić. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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)

Basic is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bašić, Basiç, Bašič, Basić, Bašic

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Basić, Bašic, Bašič, Bašić

  • Finnish name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bašić

  • Czech surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Serbia

    Also written Bašić, Bašič, Basič, Bašic

45 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)

Basic is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Necessary, essential for life or some process.

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

  • In Romanian, BASIC s. n. (Inform.) Limbaj simbolic ușor accesibil, universal. [Pr.: béizic].

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

  • In Latvian, Universāla programmēšanas valoda, beisiks (angļu "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code")

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

198019902000Zdenko Bašić, b. 1980Amell Basic, b. 1985Mirna Basic, b. 1990Lejla Basic, b. 1994

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Basic
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—637#1,527

Reference works 4

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

How do you pronounce Basic?
A machine transcription gives /beɪsɪk/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Basic have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Basic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled basic.
Where is Basic most common?
Basic is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 688 people carrying it.
How common is the name Basic?
In Croatia, the national register counted 6,147 people named Basic in 2021, about 1 in 688 residents.
How common is Basic compared with other names?
In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Basic is the 225th most common surname of 10,995 surnames recorded there.

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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.

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, “Basic” — the 225th most common surname in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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