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The BASS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 54,296 559 0.02 201
United States (1880 census) 10,867 546 0.022 217
Change since 1880 +43429 -13 -0.002 -16
Other Countries
Australia 627 2576 0.004 38
United Kingdom 4,254 1485 0.009 93
Top States for BASS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 5,584 303 0.035 349
North Carolina 5,362 178 0.067 666
Texas 5,319 457 0.026 255
Georgia 3,138 309 0.038 383
California 3,000 1101 0.009 89
Top States for BASS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 1,946 194 0.068 684
North Carolina 5,362 178 0.067 666
Alabama 1,957 356 0.044 440
Louisiana 1,840 330 0.041 412
Arkansas 1,093 296 0.041 409

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.

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

Classification and Origin of BASS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BASS 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 BASS 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 BASS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 956 1.76
White (Hispanic) 901 1.66
Native American/Alaskan 342 0.63
Asian/Pacific 212 0.39
White (Caucasian) 38,995 71.82
Black/African American 12,890 23.74

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

Meaning of BASS in historical publications

BASS. Fr. has, short, low of stature. Le Bas is a Aery well-knOA\ai Fr. surname, and has been naturalized here since the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

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 BASS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BASS.

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 BASS

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