Bassel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bæsəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bassel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 4.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 20K
- USUnited States1 in 677K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bassel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Bassel | 81 |
| SY Syria | #634 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Bassel | 51 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Bassel | 60 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Bassel | 81 |
| LB Lebanon | #958 | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Bassel | 58 |
| US United States | — | 491 | 1 in 677K | 489 | Bassel | 178 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Bassel | 27 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
- Bassel Aqelb. 1938PSPalestinian politician
- Basel Mahdi Hammadib. 1943IQnot in their usual nameIraqi footballer (1943-2020)
- Bassel al-Assadb. 1962SYSyrian engineer, soldier, politician, and eldest son of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad
- Basil Al-Khatibb. 1962SYnot in their usual namePalestinian Syrian director
- B.A. Abbasb. 1963IQnot in their usual nameIraqi biologist
- Basil Nasserb. 1966PSnot in their usual namePalestinian politician
- Basel Yaldob. 1970IQnot in their usual nameIraqi Chaldean Catholic bishop
- Bassel Khartabilb. 1981SYfree culture and democracy activist, Syrian political prisoner
- The Hungry Syrian Wandererb. 1996SYnot in their usual nameSyrian-Filipino blogger
- Basel ShbitaILnot in their usual namecomputer scientist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 199 | #97,730 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 168 | #99,725 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 167 | #106,570 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Bassel?
- A machine transcription gives /bæsəɫ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Bassel a male or female name?
- Bassel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Bassel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Bassel in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bassel.
- How common is the name Bassel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 491 people named Bassel in 2020, about 1 in 677 thousand residents.
- How common is Bassel compared with other names?
- In Syria, Bassel is the 634th most common given name of 109,151 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bassel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/basselThe 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, “Bassel” — the 634th most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.