Basse
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: feminine singular of bas
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Basse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 47K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 75K
- USUnited States1 in 559K
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.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 976 (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, 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(measured from records)
Archaic form of bass (“perch”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Basse is read(measured from records)
Basse is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- French34%
feminine singular of bas
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English31%
Archaic form of bass (“perch”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Basse in Spanish.
- German9.2%
evtl. patronymisch zu Sebastian; sonst zu Baso oder als Herkunftsname
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Basse 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #125 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 976 | 5 | Basse | 29 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 157 | Basse | 213 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Basse | 82 |
| IN India | — | 924 | 1 in 1.4M | 924 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 595 | 1 in 559K | 667 | Basse | 188 |
| AR Argentina | — | 557 | 1 in 82K | 557 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 413 | 1 in 14K | 413 | — | 2 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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)
Basse 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 Danish, a big, strong man, a big thing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, singular present subjunctive of bassen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative masculine singular of bassus
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)
- Friedrich Heinrich Basseb. 1773DEGerman chemist and physicist
- August Basseb. 1834DEGerman entrepreneur, merchant and politician
- Hermann Basseb. 1882DEGerman politician (1882-1933)
- Wilfried Basseb. 1899DEGerman camera operator (1899–1946)
- Éliane Basseb. 1899FRFrench paleontologist, geologist, botanist and botanical collector (1899 – 1985)
- Georg-Wilhelm Basseb. 1917DEGerman navy officer and world war II U-boat commander
- Jacques Basseb. 1934FRFrench painter and poet
- Pierre-Louis Basseb. 1958FRFrench journalist and writer
- Martin Basseb. 1960DEGerman paleontologist
- Mikkel Basseb. 1996DKassociation football player
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 33 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 924 | #5,850 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 667 | #36,150 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 638 | #33,690 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 595 | #37,442 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 557 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 413 | #1,077 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 177 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 176 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 169 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 157 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 132 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 105 | — |
Reference works 7
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Basse come from?
- Archaic form of bass (“perch”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Basse?
- A machine transcription gives /bas/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Basse mean?
- In French, feminine singular of bas
- In which country does Basse have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Basse in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled basse.
- How common is the name Basse?
- In India, the national register counted 924 people named Basse, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Basse compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Basse is the 125th most common surname of 3,622 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Basse?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/basseThe 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, “Basse” — the 125th most common surname in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.