The Basso surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 3,733 people carried this name — #8,169 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 72,500 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 1,372 people named Basso.
368 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 61 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
288 people named Basso live in Switzerland.
They live in 14 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 52 people named Basso live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Basso in American newspapers,
1890–1904.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 94,227 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Basso,
with a public archive behind them.
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Giuseppe Basso 1842–1895 · mathematician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Basso.
- Bassette 516 · U.S. census
- Bassetti 381 · U.S. census
- Bassi 1,515 · U.S. census
- Bassignani 144 · U.S. census
- Bassin 538 · U.S. census
- Bassler 1,616 · U.S. census
- Basson 220 · U.S. census
- Bast 2,429 · U.S. census
- Bastian 6,461 · U.S. census
- Bastianelli 377 · U.S. census
- Bastiani 151 · U.S. census
- Bastida 852 · U.S. census
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