The BASIL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,027	13717	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	306	14034	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+1721	+317	0	+2
Other Countries
Australia	48	26377	0	3
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for BASIL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	272	7696	0.001	14
Ohio	227	6505	0.002	20
Florida	155	12417	0.001	10
California	126	19985	0.000	4
Illinois	120	11909	0.001	10
Top States for BASIL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington DC	18	3422	0.003	31
Kentucky	106	4491	0.003	26
West Virginia	46	4171	0.003	25
Maryland	118	5330	0.002	22
Ohio	227	6505	0.002	20

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BASIL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BASIL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BASIL in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BASIL by picking someone at random in Washington DC than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BASIL

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BASIL surname.

Ethnic distribution of BASIL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	163	8.04
Mixed Race	69	3.4
Asian/Pacific	60	2.96
White (Hispanic)	44	2.17
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.25
White (Caucasian)	1,686	83.18

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BASIL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

BASIL is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to BASIL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BASIL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.