Bąş
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bąş is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 66th most common surname. Recorded meaning: 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”).
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 910(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 3.9K
- SISlovenia1 in 11K
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 Bąş 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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- #998 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 498 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 907 (inferred from the name graph)
≈94,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bass in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 1 more, Bas in ES Spain, PH Philippines, UY Uruguay and Baş in TR Türkiye.
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)- CebuanoBas(measured from records)
- Cebuano rootbas“sand”(measured from records)
- CatalanBas(measured from records)
- FrenchBas(measured from records)
- French rootbas“low”(measured from records)
- BasqueBas(measured from records)
- Basque rootbaso“wood”(measured from records)
- SloveneBaš(measured from records)
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.
Cited for this meaning 5
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bąş 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #66 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 907 | — | Baş | 87 |
| US United States | #486 | 57,044as Bass | 1 in 5.8K | 57K | Bass | 498 |
| GB United Kingdom | #714 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | listed | Bass | 210 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Bas | 37 |
| CA Canada | #940 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | 1 | Bass | 130 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,507 | 1 in 14K | 3.5K | Bas | 120 |
| SG Singapore | #569 | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Bass | 17 |
| UY Uruguay | #653 | 865 | 1 in 3.9K | 865 | Bas | 23 |
| GY Guyana | — | 450as Bess | 1 in 1.7K | 450 | — | 3 |
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; 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); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bąş mean, and where does it 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”). Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- Is Bąş a male or female name?
- Bąş is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Bąş have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 94 thousand people named Bąş in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baş.
- How common is the name Bąş?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,507 people named Bąş, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Bąş compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Bąş is the 66th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C4%85%C5%9FThe 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, “Bąş” — the 66th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.