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Basia

Girls' name

Barbarians, through Barbara

Basia has been given to 362 babies in the U.S. since 1988. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2002, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Basia, 2022

1 in 564,000

Basia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Basia: meaning, origin, and history

Barbarians, through Barbara

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Basia means

Basia belongs to the name family reached through Basia → Barbara → βάρβαρος. Its meaning is “barbarians”.

Origin, language, and formation

Basia is used in Polish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Barbara and βάρβαρος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Basia is pronounced /ˈba.ɕa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 362 girls were recorded with the name Basia between 1988 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2002; its best national rank was #4,128 in 1990.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Basia?

Basia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Basia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Basia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Basias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Basia was born before 2000 — so the typical Basia is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
43.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
362
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 43.6% of all recorded uses (158).

Is Basia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2002 (26)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,128
1990

Spellings of Basia

Basia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 44.7% against Basia's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Basia is used

Across 1910–2025, Basia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,357,808 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Basia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Basia around the world

Where Basia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1995–1997
    #4,548
    in 1997

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Basia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,128
1990
Peak year
2002
26 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
362
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Basia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BasilBasmaBashaBassyBasyaNasiaZosiaJasiaKesiaTessiaAnysiaAnisiaMiasiaJessiaCesiaElsiaIasiaElaysiaPersiaKyasiaKasiaAssiaLanasiaKassia

Sibling names for Basia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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