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    The surname Basse

    A German place surname, carried by 595 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B200

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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). Basse is more common than 76.9% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Various origins: * Borrowed from German Basse, a habitational surname. * Borrowed from Danish Basse, a nickname meaning "wild boar". * Borrowed from French Basse, from basse (“low; short”).

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

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 595 people named Basse in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 518,900 Americans. That is down 6.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 638.

    #37,442
    rank among US surnames
    595
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -6.7%
    change since 2000 (was #33,690)

    Who is named Basse

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

    83% of people named Basse identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 83%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 9.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Basse

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

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Basse come from?
    Various origins: * Borrowed from German Basse, a habitational surname. * Borrowed from Danish Basse, a nickname meaning "wild boar". * Borrowed from French Basse, from basse (“low; short”).
    How common is the surname Basse?
    595 people in the United States had the surname Basse in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 518,900 Americans. It ranked 37,442nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Basse?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Basse identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Basse?
    Basse is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Basse getting more or less common?
    Less common. 638 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 595 in 2010, down 6.7%.