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Basile

#10,856 in 2025Boys' name

Of the king, kingly, royal, through Βασίλειος

Basile has been given to 45 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #10,856 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Basile, 2025

1 in 553,000

Basile over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Basile: meaning, origin, and history

Of the king, kingly, royal, through Βασίλειος

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Basile means

Basile belongs to the name family reached through Basile → Βασίλειος. Its meaning is “of the king, kingly, royal”.

Origin, language, and formation

Basile is used in French.

Basile comes through Ancient Greek Βασίλειος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Basil and Βασίλειος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Basile is pronounced /ba.zil/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 45 boys were recorded with the name Basile between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2018; its best national rank was #3,948 in 1916.

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 Basile?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,856
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Basile sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Basile. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Basiles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Basile was born before 2016 — so the typical Basile is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
40
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Choose a decade

2010s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Basile 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 2018 (7)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,948
1916

Spellings of Basile

Basile is not the most common spelling — Bailey is, with 58.3% against Basile's 0.12%.

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.

Basile around the world

Where Basile 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.

  • England & Wales
    2016–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    1900–2025
    #41
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1958–1958
    #433
    in 1958

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Basile by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,856
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,948
1916
Peak year
2018
7 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
45
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Basile

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

BassilBassemBasselBasemBashawnBascumBasharBasirBasitBashanBasheerBassamBastionBasimBashBastienVasileBasseyCamileBashirBasinBaselLucileOrvile

Sibling names for Basile

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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