Bassham

surname · Latin script

Meaning: perhaps person from Barsham, Norfolk or Suffolk; meaning 'Bar's homestead'

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

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

Bassham is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 223K(measured from records)
  • MLMali≈1 in 18K
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 91K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,492 people, 2010

Sources
225 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)

Mali, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

perhaps person from Barsham, Norfolk or Suffolk; meaning 'Bar's homestead'

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bassham 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 Bassham is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,4921 in 223K1.5KBassham225
ML Mali#334≈1,100 est.≈1 in 18K—Bassham1
GB United Kingdom—≈210 est.≈1 in 315K—Bassham56
CA Canada—≈140 est.≈1 in 269K—Bassham10
AU Australia—≈93 est.≈1 in 274K—Bassham52
SG Singapore—≈68 est.≈1 in 91K—Bassham1
IL Israel—≈37 est.≈1 in 233K—Bassham2

1,492 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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. 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)

192019401960James Bassham, b. 1922Alan Bassham, b. 1933Lanny Bassham, b. 1947Gregory Bassham, b. 1959

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)

FormalDear Bassham,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Bassham
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.5K#18,507
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.4K#19,495
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.3K#18,892
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Bassham mean, and where does it come from?
perhaps person from Barsham, Norfolk or Suffolk; meaning 'Bar's homestead' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Bassham?
A machine transcription gives /ˈbæʃəm/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Bassham have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Bassham, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bassham.
How common is the name Bassham?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,492 people named Bassham in 2010, about 1 in 223 thousand residents.
How common is Bassham compared with other names?
In Mali, Bassham is the 334th most common surname of 7,873 surnames recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bassham

The 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, “Bassham” — the 334th most common surname in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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