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    The surname Bassin

    A French occupational surname, carried by 370 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B250

    Bassin: #55,505 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Bassin #55,505, 370 people Bassin: #55,505 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Bassin #55,505, 370 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bassin is more common than 65.8% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    Two possible origins: * Jewish metronymic surname from an Yiddish pet form of the personal name Bathsheba. * Borrowed from French Bassin, a metonymic occupational surname for a maker or seller of basins, from bassin (“small basin”).

    Bassin is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 370 people named Bassin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 834,447 Americans. That is down 31% since 2000, when the Census counted 538.

    #55,505
    rank among US surnames
    370
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -31.2%
    change since 2000 (was #38,644)

    Who is named Bassin

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

    96% of people named Bassin identified as white (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    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 Bassin

    Bassin has the Soundex code B250, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B250.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bassin come from?
    Two possible origins: * Jewish metronymic surname from an Yiddish pet form of the personal name Bathsheba. * Borrowed from French Bassin, a metonymic occupational surname for a maker or seller of basins, from bassin (“small basin”).
    How common is the surname Bassin?
    370 people in the United States had the surname Bassin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 834,447 Americans. It ranked 55,505th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bassin?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Bassin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.0% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
    What type of surname is Bassin?
    Bassin is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Bassin getting more or less common?
    Less common. 538 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 370 in 2010, down 31%.