Given name & surname
Bass
“resembling the fish”
Bass is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “resembling the fish.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “resembling the fish.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1925. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bass through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 16 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1937
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1937. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 123 as a first name in 2020; 54,502 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bass’s family of names
Bass has a related form in Bassey. Bass has a related form in Bassea. Bass has a related form in Bassee.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bass
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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