Bastide
surname · Latin script
Meaning: mansion in Provence
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bastid/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bastide is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 255K
- BEBelgium1 in 533K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 245 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
mansion in Provence
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bastide 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 590 | Bastide | 245 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | listed | Bastide | 56 |
| BR Brazil | 73 | 1 in 2.9M | 73 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 754K | — | Bastide | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Bastide | 25 |
| CH Switzerland | 33 | 1 in 255K | 33 | Bastide | 9 |
| BE Belgium | 22 | 1 in 533K | 22 | Bastide | 9 |
| DK Denmark | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | 1 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bastide is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, second-person plural imperative of bastir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A mansion in Provence.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jean-François de Bastideb. 1724FRFrench writer
- Jules Bastideb. 1800FRFrench politician (1800-1879)
- Joseph Bastideb. 1876FRFrench politician (1876-1957)
- Paul Bastideb. 1879FRFrench composer and conductor (1879–1962)
- Roger Bastideb. 1898FRFrench anthropologist and sociologist (1898–1974)
- Jean Bastideb. 1905FRFrench politician, resistance fighter and physician (1905-1995)
- François-Régis Bastideb. 1926FRFrench writer and diplomat
- Marie Bastideb. 1950FRFrench lyricist
- Bernard Bastideb. 1961FRFrench journalist and film critic
- Lauren Bastideb. 1980FRFrench journalist and activist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 853 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 828 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 808 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 773 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 760 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 721 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 689 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 634 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 627 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 590 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 508 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 73 | #79,953 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bastide mean, and where does it come from?
- mansion in Provence Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bastide?
- A machine transcription gives /bastid/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Bastide have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Bastide in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bastide.
- How common is the name Bastide?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 73 people named Bastide, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bastideThe 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, “Bastide”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.