Basil Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 1
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 14
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 5
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Basil Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Basil family

Profession Census Frequency
Servant 2
Agricultural Labourer 2
Female Servant 1
Blacksmith Independent 1
Femaleservant 1
Male Servant 1
Independent 1
Labourer 1
Merchant 1
Pauper 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Basil

Name Census Frequency
William Basil 32
Mary Basil 29
George Basil 19
Sarah Basil 14
Thomas Basil 14
John Basil 13
Elizabeth Basil 12
Frederick Basil 9
James Basil 9
Robert Basil 8
Annie Basil 7
Ann Basil 6
Eliza Basil 6
Charles Basil 5
Edwin Basil 5
Emma Basil 5
Susan Basil 5
Agnes Basil 4
Edward Basil 4
Ernest Basil 4
Henry Basil 4
Joseph Basil 4
Mabel Basil 4
Richard Basil 4
Susannah Basil 4

Basil Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Bassil 83% 736
2 Basil 100% 358
3 Bazell 50% 292
4 Bassill 71% 281
5 Beslee 33% 136
6 Basill 83% 110

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The surname Basil is the 2nd most popular variant of Bassil.

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