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    The surname Bas

    A Cebuano place surname, carried by 604 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B200 Also a first name

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bas is more common than 77.2% of them.

    Origin

    Cebuano origin

    Various origins: * Borrowed from Cebuano Bas, from bas (“sand”). * Borrowed from Catalan Bas, a habitational surname from a place in Catalonia. * Borrowed from French Bas, from bas (“low”). * Borrowed from Basque Bas, a topographic surname from baso (“wood”). * Borrowed from Slovene Baš, a short form of the personal name Sebastjan.

    Bas is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 604 people named Bas in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 511,168 Americans. That is up 27% since 2000, when the Census counted 475.

    #36,970
    rank among US surnames
    604
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +27.2%
    change since 2000 (was #42,912)

    Who is named Bas

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    50% of people named Bas identified as white (not Hispanic), 27% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 17% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 50%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 27%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 17%
    • Two or more races 3.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Bas

    Bas has the Soundex code B200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B200.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bas come from?
    Various origins: * Borrowed from Cebuano Bas, from bas (“sand”). * Borrowed from Catalan Bas, a habitational surname from a place in Catalonia. * Borrowed from French Bas, from bas (“low”). * Borrowed from Basque Bas, a topographic surname from baso (“wood”). * Borrowed from Slovene Baš, a short…
    How common is the surname Bas?
    604 people in the United States had the surname Bas in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 511,168 Americans. It ranked 36,970th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bas?
    In the 2010 Census, 50% of people named Bas identified as white (not Hispanic), and 27% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Bas?
    Bas is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Bas getting more or less common?
    More common. 475 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 604 in 2010, up 27%.
    Is Bas also a first name?
    Yes. Bas is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.