Basílides
given name · Latin script
Basílides is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Greek patronymic of basileús ‘king’: ‘son of a king’, ‘prince’.
- PEPeru≈1 in 72K(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 65K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 134K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)
≈810 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Basilides in PE Peru, PH Philippines, PY Paraguay and 4 more.
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)
Greek patronymic of basileús ‘king’: ‘son of a king’, ‘prince’.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Basílides 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Basilides | 10 |
| PE Peru | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Basilides | 21 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Basilides | 7 |
| US United States | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | listed | Basilides | 31 |
| ES Spain | 51 | 1 in 981K | 61 | Basilides | 10 |
| PA Panama | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Basilides | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | 17 | 1 in 199K | 17 | Basilides | 4 |
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: INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Basilidesb. 117EG2nd century Christian Gnostic religious teacher based in Alexandria
- Basilidesb. 200EGChristian martyr
- Basilides the Epicureanb. 250ancient Greek philosopher
- Basilides3rd century Christian bishop
- Basilides of Scythopolis2nd-century philosopher
- BasilidesStoic philosopher (2nd century BCE)
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Basílides mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek patronymic of basileús ‘king’: ‘son of a king’, ‘prince’. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Is Basílides a male or female name?
- Basílides is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Basílides have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 812 people named Basílides in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled basilides.
- How common is the name Basílides?
- In Spain, the national register counted 51 people named Basílides, about 1 in 981 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/bas%C3%ADlidesThe 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, “Basílides”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.