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The basel Surname

basel Name Meaning and History

  1. German: habitational name from the Swiss city of Basel.
  2. from a short form of Germanic personal names formed with Old High German ber ‘bear’ (the animal) or Old Norse bodh ‘battle’.
  3. from a pet form, Božel, from Slavic Božidar ‘gift of God’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The basel name in History

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Distribution of basel Families in the US in 1920
Number of basel families
 17-31
 6-16		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 12 - Messages: 78
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Basel Family history Matthew San 3
norman f basel peter worby 1
William Henry Basel/ Fulton County, Illinios onewoman_3 1
Everett Basel jeni_martinson 1
basel family search Gbreland0728 52
Basels HarrietB 4
James Basel and Rebecca McGuire Allen Co., OH 1869 Brenda Wallace 0
BASEL SEARCH OF KANSAS, JOHN BASEL 2
Julia Basel RonWKipp 2
Wish to find my sister, K(C?)athleen Jean Basil of Minnesota CBeck1666 0
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