Bassoon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges
Bassoon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 12Kas Bassini(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 43Kas Bassin
- SISlovenia1 in 91Kas Bassin
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bassoon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
729 named Bassini
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay, as Bassini
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bassin in US United States.
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)A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bassoon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 729as Bassini | 1 in 290K | 729 | — | — |
| US United States | 370as Bassin | 1 in 899K | 538 | Bassin | 4 |
| AR Argentina | 352as Bassini | 1 in 129K | 352 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 273as Bassini | 1 in 12K | 273 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 196as Bassin | 1 in 43K | 196 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 30as Bassin | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 23as Bassin | 1 in 91K | 23 | — | — |
729 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)Bassoon 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 Finnish, illative singular of basso
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bassoon mean, and where does it come from?
- A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bassoon have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 729 people named Bassini, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bassoon most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Bassoon itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Uruguay's: the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people named Bassini.
- How common is the name Bassoon?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 729 people named Bassini, about 1 in 290 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bassoonThe 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, “Bassoon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.