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bas Name Meaning and History

  1. Basque: topographic name for someone who lived by a wood, from Basque baso ‘wood’.
  2. Catalan: habitational name from a place so named in the Catalan district of La Garrotxa, Catalonia.
  3. Slovenian (Baš): from a medieval short form of the personal name Sebastjan (see Sebastian).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bas Families in the US in 1920
Number of bas families
 9-15
 4-8		 1-3
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Pieter-1 Roelofszen [Bas] of Mespath Kills, Newtown, Queens County, New York Perry Streeter 0
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