Bascom
About 731 American babies have been named Bascom since 1882, most of them around 1916. It has not appeared in the national data since 1970. About 100 Bascoms are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 78.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Bascom
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 731
- Estimated living today
- 100
- Median age today
- 78
- Peak year
- 1916
- Best rank
- 1,265th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1882
How old the living Bascoms are
born that year still alive today
Of the 731 babies given the name since 1882, about 100 are alive — 13 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1947 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Bascom is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bascom is most concentrated in Virginia (22.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1916
The most popular boys’ names the year Bascom peaked:
Related names
Bascom against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.