The Basse Family Name

Basse sits within the Bass family of names, which has English roots. Name scholars give the meaning as “Short, low”.

• Basse adds “e” to Bass, a small change that crept in as the name was written down.
• Spanish statistics put 124 people with Basse in first position and 64 in second. French birth records list 1,308 children named Basse between 1891 and 2000.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Arms associated with the name

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