Basu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of Bose
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbɑsu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Basu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 199K
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.7Kas Baas
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Basu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 267 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
65,281 named Bosu
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Health in US United States, NL Netherlands, SG Singapore and 1 more and Baas in ES Spain.
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)
Alternative form of Bose.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Basu 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 | #643 | 65,281as Bosu | 1 in 20K | 65K | Basu | 212 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 6,288as Baas | 1 in 2.7K | 20K | Health | 32 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Basu | 36 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,507as Bas | 1 in 14K | 3.5K | Baas | 18 |
| US United States | — | 1,675 | 1 in 199K | 2.3K | Health | 267 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,390as Baz | 1 in 2.4K | 1.4K | — | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,036as Bas | 1 in 11K | 1.1K | Health | 9 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Health | 35 |
65,281 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling bosu. 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names). 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)
Basu is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of ばす
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-pro, purple, scarlet, crimson
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yka, glass (for drinking)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mdh, drinking glass
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-oce-pro, anger, angry
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Kumudini Basub. 1878Bengali writer
- Rajshekhar Basub. 1880INIndian writer (1880–1960)
- Jyoti Basub. 1914INIndian politician (1914-2010)
- Kamal Basub. 1918INPolitical leader
- Kaushik Basub. 1952INIndian economist and academic
- Siddhartha Basub. 1954INIndian television director
- Bratya Basub. 1969INIndian academician, dramatist, director, actor and politician
- Anurag Basub. 1970INIndian filmmaker and actor (born 1970)
- Bipasha Basub. 1979INIndian actress and model (born 1979)
- Anjana BasuINIndian film actress
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 27 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 5.4K | #1,483 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,968 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #22,891 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 763 | #123 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 43 | #50,046 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 43 | #49,226 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 42 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 17 | #52,315 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 7 | #70,794 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Basu mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Bose. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Basu?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɑsu/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Basu have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 65 thousand people named Bosu, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Basu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,675 people named Basu in 2010, about 1 in 199 thousand residents.
- How common is Basu compared with other names?
- In India, Basu is the 643rd most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/basuThe 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, “Basu” — the 643rd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.