Basten
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Basten is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. In German, recorded as bast; made of bast.
- NLNetherlands1 in 17K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 366K
- USUnited States1 in 766K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
1,018 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
bast; made of bast
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Basten is read(measured from records)
Basten is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English55%
v. BASTIAN
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- German18%
bast; made of bast
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Sebastian(us); 513 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
- Dutch7.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Basten in Dutch.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Basten 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 1,018 | 1 in 17K | 1K | Basten | 8 |
| US United States | 434 | 1 in 766K | 489 | Basten | 16 |
| BR Brazil | 55 | 1 in 3.8M | 55 | Basten | 27 |
| BE Belgium | 32 | 1 in 366K | 32 | — | 1 |
| IN India | 6 | 1 in 221M | 6 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
1,018 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Basten is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, third-person plural present indicative of bastar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, inflection of bastar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nds, to burst, explode
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)
- Franz Peter Bastenb. 1944DEGerman politician
- Rolf Bastenb. 1951DEGerman musician
- Twan Bastenb. 1969NLresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1K | #1,678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 489 | #46,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 472 | #43,157 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 434 | #48,628 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 55 | #98,063 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 32 | #35,372 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #158,378 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #65,771 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Basten mean, and where does it come from?
- bast; made of bast Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Basten have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Basten, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled basten.
- Where is Basten most common?
- Basten is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 17 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Basten?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,018 people named Basten in 2007, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bastenThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Basten”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.