Bassale Surname
Approximately 1,065 people bear this surname
Bassale Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 616 | 1:16,779 | 2,261 |
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| Venezuela | 5 | 1:6,040,815 | 47,898 |
| Burkina Faso | 3 | 1:6,117,367 | 22,156 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Czechia | 3 | 1:3,544,490 | 144,714 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Luxembourg | 2 | 1:290,271 | 8,611 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 1:4,565,335 | 193,764 |
The alternate forms: Bassalè (1) are calculated separately.
Bassale (158) may also be a first name.
Bassale Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bassale Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bassale is most common in Benin. It may also be rendered as a variant: Bassalè. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bassale? popularity and diffusion
It is the 344,115th most commonly occurring family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 6,842,766 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Bassale are found; 98 percent are found in West Africa and 98 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 730,165th most prevalent first name globally. It is borne by 158 people.
The last name Bassale is most prevalent in Benin, where it is carried by 616 people, or 1 in 16,779. In Benin Bassale is mostly concentrated in: Collines Department, where 58 percent are found, Zou Department, where 11 percent are found and Atakora Department, where 11 percent are found. Barring Benin this surname occurs in 16 countries. It is also found in Togo, where 39 percent are found and Venezuela, where 0 percent are found.
Bassale Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Bassale has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Bassale surname decreased 91 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Bassale
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