Basilia

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/basilja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Basilia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 46th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 3.4K
  • PEPeru≈1 in 4K

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.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈8,100 people, est.

Sources
116 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Bolivia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Basilia 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.

Where Basilia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#687≈8,100 est.≈1 in 4K—Basilia35
PH Philippines—≈7,300 est.≈1 in 15K—Basilia18
BO Bolivia#46≈4,400 est.≈1 in 2.6K—Basilia23
CN China—≈4,300 est.≈1 in 323K—Basilia2
DO Dominican Republic#228≈3,000 est.≈1 in 3.4K—Basilia17
ES Spain—1,9871 in 25K2.2KBasilia47
PY Paraguay#438≈1,600 est.≈1 in 4.6K—Basilia16

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 — 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Basilia is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Nigeria, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bäsilia, Baesilia

  • Georgian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Georgia

    Also written ბასილია

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Basília

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Kuwait

    Also written Basília

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Peru, Ukraine, Spain

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Басилия, Басіліа, Basilía

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Basilia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of basilīum

    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)

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)

InformalHola Basilia,Hi Basilia, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 45 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Basilia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.2K#815
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2K#1,738

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

How do you pronounce Basilia?
A machine transcription gives /basilja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Basilia a male or female name?
Basilia is a female 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 Basilia have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Basilia in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled basilia.
How common is the name Basilia?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,987 people named Basilia, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
How common is Basilia compared with other names?
In Peru, Basilia is the 687th most common given name of 254,284 given names recorded there.

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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, “Basilia” — the 687th most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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