The surname Basnight
A surname, carried by 1,213 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B252
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,213 people named Basnight in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 254,531 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,202.
#21,524
rank among US surnames
1,213
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+0.9%
change since 2000 (was #20,512)
Who is named Basnight
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
59% of people named Basnight identified as Black (not Hispanic), 36% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 59%
- White (not Hispanic) 36%
- Two or more races 3.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.0%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Basnight has the Soundex code B252, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B252.
Questions
- How common is the surname Basnight?
- 1,213 people in the United States had the surname Basnight in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 254,531 Americans. It ranked 21,524th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Basnight?
- In the 2010 Census, 59% of people named Basnight identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 36% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Basnight getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,202 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,213 in 2010, up 0.9%.