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The BASSETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 20,032 1636 0.007 74
United States (1880 census) 7,590 790 0.015 152
Change since 1880 +12442 -846 -0.008 -78
Other Countries
Australia 1,689 962 0.01 103
United Kingdom 6,114 1025 0.013 133
Notes

'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.

Classification and Origin of BASSETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BASSETT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BASSETT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BASSETT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 359 1.79
Mixed Race 266 1.33
Asian/Pacific 124 0.62
Native American/Alaskan 124 0.62
White (Caucasian) 17,312 86.42
Black/African American 1,845 9.21

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

Meaning of BASSETT in historical publications

BASSETT. O. Fr. basset, ' a dwarf or very low man." Cotgrave. This family, who became great barons and gave tlieir name as a suffix to Drayton Basset, Winterbourne Basset, &c., are said to have been of humble origin. One of the family appears in Domesd. as an undertenant. Ordericus Vitalis speaks of Ralph B. as having been raised by Henry II. from an ignoble stock, and from the very dust — " de ignobili stirpeacde pulvere." The B.'s of Beaupre, liowever, claim descent from Turstin B., the Conqueror's grand falconer. B.L.G.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BASSETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BASSETT.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BASSETT

The following words are slight variants of BASSETT that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.