Basile
surname · Latin script
Meaning: du nom grec Basileios, dérivé de basileus « roi »
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɑsəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Basile is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 43K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 13K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 348 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
7,783 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
du nom grec Basileios, dérivé de basileus « roi ».
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Basile is read(measured from records)
Basile 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.
- English53%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Basile in English.
- Spanish18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Basile in Spanish.
- Italian8.8%
do nome gr. Basileios, difundido pelo culto a São Basílio
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French8.4%
du nom grec Basileios, dérivé de basileus « roi ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Du grec basileus, « roi »; saint Basile le Grand, fêté le 2 janvier.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Du grec basileios, lié à basileus « roi »; nom d’origine grecque.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
From Greek Basileios, from basileus 'king'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Origine grecque, signifie « roi ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Basile 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 7,783 | 1 in 43K | 7.8K | Basile | 348 |
| AR Argentina | 3,485 | 1 in 13K | 3.5K | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 1,636 | 1 in 129K | 1.6K | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 423 | 1 in 20K | 423 | Basile | 33 |
| BE Belgium | 358 | 1 in 33K | 398 | Basile | 39 |
| UY Uruguay | 133 | 1 in 25K | 133 | — | — |
7,783 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pierre Basileb. 1200FRFrench military personnel
- Giambattista Basileb. 1566ITItalian writer (1583-1632)
- Arturo Basileb. 1914ITItalian conductor (1914-1968)
- Nadine Basileb. 1931FRFrench actress (1931–2017)
- Salvo Basileb. 1940ITColombian-Italian actor (1940–2026)
- Alfio Basileb. 1943ARArgentine football player and manager
- Gianluca Basileb. 1975ITItalian basketball player (born 1975)
- Nick Basileb. 1978USAmerican film director and producer
- Leonardo Basileb. 1983ITOlympic taekwondo practitioner
- Fabio Basileb. 1994ITItalian judoka
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 69 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.8K | #4,555 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.7K | #4,248 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.1K | #4,825 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 3.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.6K | #5,876 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 423 | #3,111 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 398 | #4,023 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 358 | #4,481 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 133 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Basile have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.8 thousand people named Basile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled basile.
- Where is Basile most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Basile is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Basile mean?
- Recorded meaning: du nom grec Basileios, dérivé de basileus « roi ».
- How do you pronounce Basile?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɑsəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Basile?
- In the etymology graph, Pasi, Vasko and Bazza are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Basile?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,783 people named Basile in 2010, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/basileThe 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, “Basile”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.