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bassette Name Meaning and History

Altered spelling reflecting the Canadian pronunciation of French Basset, from a diminutive of Old French bas ‘low’, either in the sense ‘low-born’ or ‘short’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bassette Families in the US in 1920
Number of bassette families
 14-26
 5-13
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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