Baske
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ME baisk, bask, ON beiskr ‘bitter, acrid; ungrateful or irritating to the senses’; first attested Henry, Roger Baske 1332 SRSt
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bæsk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Baske is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 130K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 571K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 581K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 130K (inferred from the name graph)
10,188 people
Highest-authority source
India
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(measured from records)
from ME baisk, bask, ON beiskr ‘bitter, acrid; ungrateful or irritating to the senses’; first attested Henry, Roger Baske 1332 SRSt
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Baske 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 10,188 | 1 in 130K | 10K | Baske | 39 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Baske | 6 |
| US United States | 128 | 1 in 2.6M | 177 | Baske | 11 |
| PL Poland | 67 | 1 in 571K | 36 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Baske | 2 |
| CL Chile | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 585K | — | Baske | 2 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Baske | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
10,188 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Baske 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 German, Basque (male or of unspecified gender)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, only used in baske mig
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 10K | #962 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 177 | #95,567 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 148 | #122,574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 128 | #132,206 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 36 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 36 | #62,005 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 31 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 31 | #67,743 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 14 | #10,676 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #52,594 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #28,153 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #43,017 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Baske mean, and where does it come from?
- from ME baisk, bask, ON beiskr ‘bitter, acrid; ungrateful or irritating to the senses’; first attested Henry, Roger Baske 1332 SRSt Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Baske?
- A machine transcription gives /bæsk/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Baske have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Baske, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baske.
- Where is Baske most common?
- Baske is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 130 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Baske?
- In India, the national register counted 10,188 people named Baske, about 1 in 130 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baskeThe 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, “Baske”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.