Bass

Bass is the 601st most common surname in the United States, shared by 54,502 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,484.

By the numbers

People: 54,502
Rank: 601st
How common: 1 in 5,484
Per 100,000: 18.2

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bass described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 66.6%
Black, not Hispanic 23.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Bass

Saul Bass (1920–1996)American graphic designer and filmmaker
Karen Bass (born 1953)American politician and 43rd Mayor of Los Angeles
Lance Bass (born 1979)American singer, dancer, actor, and film and television producer
Brandon Bass (born 1985)American basketball player
George Bass (1771–1803)British explorer
Eduard Bass (1888–1946)Czech theater reviewer, theater manager, actor, publicist, translator, satirist, writer and singer
Fontella Bass (1940–2012)American singer
Richard Bass (1929–2015)American mountain climber

People named Bass with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bass

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.