Meaning not yet researched.
Basil: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 74 in 2025. Its best rank was #322 in 1897.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #322 in 1897; #2,022 in 2025. About 76% of babies named Basil in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,022 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1897, at #322.
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Basil: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 74 boys in 2025. Peak: #322 in 1897 · most boys in one year: 281 (1924).
In 2025, 74 US boys were named Basil, making it the 2,022nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 7 places from #2,015 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 76 boys named Basil in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #322, reached in 1897. The most boys given the name in a single year was 281, in 1924. For comparison, it was #2,430 in 2015 and #658 in 1950.
In 2025, 23 US girls were named Basil, making it the 5,432nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 773 places from #6,205 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 19 girls named Basil in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,866, reached in 1919. The most girls given the name in a single year was 29, in 2021. For comparison, it was #7,331 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Basil in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 11 babies with the name. In all, 13,538 US babies have been given the name, 2.7% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,456 babies named Basil.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 703 US boys were named Basil; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 88. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,082 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Basil ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #1,052 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Basilio, Basel and Bassel are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Basilio (1,809), Basel (552), Bassel (296), Vasili (204), Bazil (161), Vasily (113), Wasil (91), Vasil (79), Wasyl (64), Bassil (52), Basile (45), Vasilije (42), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Basil in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,052 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,117 | #941 |
| California | 6 | #2,240 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #2,622 | #2,424 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,432 | 74 | #2,022 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,205 | 76 | #2,015 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,273 | 74 | #2,033 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,813 | 88 | #1,828 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,634 | 74 | #2,002 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,363 | 58 | #2,326 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,789 | 71 | #2,048 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,033 | 69 | #2,066 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,209 | 59 | #2,244 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,823 | 60 | #2,234 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,331 | 52 | #2,430 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,036 | 44 | #2,712 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,047 | 56 | #2,283 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,147 | 46 | #2,639 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,582 | 44 | #2,706 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,883 | 47 | #2,583 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,916 | 57 | #2,292 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,935 | 31 | #3,490 |
| 2007 | — | — | 58 | #2,258 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,800 | 64 | #2,065 |
| 2005 | — | — | 48 | #2,400 |
| 2004 | — | — | 41 | #2,604 |
| 2003 | — | — | 57 | #2,010 |
| 2002 | — | — | 57 | #1,945 |
| 2001 | — | — | 60 | #1,842 |
| 2000 | — | — | 64 | #1,743 |
| 1999 | — | — | 56 | #1,779 |
| 1998 | — | — | 66 | #1,586 |
| 1997 | — | — | 54 | #1,773 |
| 1996 | — | — | 73 | #1,421 |
| 1995 | — | — | 65 | #1,479 |
| 1994 | — | — | 71 | #1,386 |
| 1993 | — | — | 67 | #1,420 |
| 1992 | — | — | 73 | #1,322 |
| 1991 | — | — | 67 | #1,385 |
| 1990 | — | — | 69 | #1,337 |
| 1989 | — | — | 49 | #1,617 |
| 1988 | — | — | 61 | #1,319 |
| 1987 | — | — | 61 | #1,249 |
| 1986 | — | — | 67 | #1,154 |
| 1985 | — | — | 45 | #1,487 |
| 1984 | — | — | 45 | #1,424 |
| 1983 | — | — | 78 | #1,001 |
| 1982 | — | — | 55 | #1,255 |
| 1981 | — | — | 51 | #1,294 |
| 1980 | — | — | 60 | #1,179 |
| 1979 | — | — | 52 | #1,271 |
| 1978 | — | — | 54 | #1,216 |
| 1977 | — | — | 62 | #1,102 |
| 1976 | — | — | 51 | #1,211 |
| 1975 | — | — | 58 | #1,099 |
| 1974 | — | — | 48 | #1,199 |
| 1973 | — | — | 57 | #1,074 |
| 1972 | — | — | 65 | #1,000 |
| 1971 | — | — | 66 | #999 |
| 1970 | — | — | 64 | #1,016 |
| 1969 | — | — | 60 | #989 |
| 1968 | — | — | 57 | #970 |
| 1967 | — | — | 71 | #848 |
| 1966 | — | — | 92 | #762 |
| 1965 | — | — | 82 | #816 |
| 1964 | — | — | 92 | #784 |
| 1963 | — | — | 101 | #763 |
| 1962 | — | — | 95 | #780 |
| 1961 | — | — | 113 | #720 |
| 1960 | — | — | 110 | #733 |
| 1959 | — | — | 109 | #735 |
| 1958 | — | — | 103 | #732 |
| 1957 | — | — | 95 | #772 |
| 1956 | — | — | 104 | #718 |
| 1955 | — | — | 103 | #720 |
| 1954 | — | — | 112 | #682 |
| 1953 | — | — | 139 | #616 |
| 1952 | — | — | 103 | #688 |
| 1951 | — | — | 109 | #668 |
| 1950 | — | — | 113 | #658 |
| 1949 | — | — | 111 | #650 |
| 1948 | — | — | 116 | #629 |
| 1947 | — | — | 158 | #535 |
| 1946 | — | — | 117 | #594 |
| 1945 | — | — | 101 | #603 |
| 1944 | — | — | 117 | #564 |
| 1943 | — | — | 132 | #544 |
| 1942 | — | — | 169 | #472 |
| 1941 | — | — | 132 | #514 |
| 1940 | — | — | 140 | #490 |
| 1939 | — | — | 135 | #495 |
| 1938 | — | — | 157 | #460 |
| 1937 | — | — | 145 | #464 |
| 1936 | — | — | 189 | #401 |
| 1935 | — | — | 175 | #417 |
| 1934 | — | — | 159 | #447 |
| 1933 | — | — | 172 | #413 |
| 1932 | — | — | 200 | #396 |
| 1931 | — | — | 154 | #454 |
| 1930 | — | — | 219 | #386 |
| 1929 | — | — | 238 | #373 |
| 1928 | — | — | 191 | #431 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,873 | 249 | #371 |
| 1926 | — | — | 232 | #385 |
| 1925 | — | — | 259 | #370 |
| 1924 | — | — | 281 | #354 |
| 1923 | — | — | 245 | #379 |
| 1922 | — | — | 247 | #382 |
| 1921 | — | — | 266 | #374 |
| 1920 | — | — | 243 | #383 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,866 | 262 | #352 |
| 1918 | — | — | 239 | #387 |
| 1917 | — | — | 221 | #379 |
| 1916 | — | — | 244 | #341 |
| 1915 | — | — | 243 | #339 |
| 1914 | — | — | 161 | #375 |
| 1913 | — | — | 120 | #387 |
| 1912 | — | — | 114 | #359 |
| 1911 | — | — | 69 | #329 |
| 1910 | — | — | 46 | #383 |
| 1909 | — | — | 37 | #403 |
| 1908 | — | — | 39 | #366 |
| 1907 | — | — | 39 | #352 |
| 1906 | — | — | 32 | #378 |
| 1905 | — | — | 30 | #384 |
| 1904 | — | — | 37 | #328 |
| 1903 | — | — | 23 | #413 |
| 1902 | — | — | 32 | #348 |
| 1901 | — | — | 28 | #347 |
| 1900 | — | — | 37 | #359 |
| 1899 | — | — | 28 | #338 |
| 1898 | — | — | 27 | #379 |
| 1897 | — | — | 33 | #322 |
| 1896 | — | — | 34 | #324 |
| 1895 | — | — | 22 | #416 |
| 1894 | — | — | 27 | #349 |
| 1893 | — | — | 22 | #383 |
| 1892 | — | — | 22 | #406 |
| 1891 | — | — | 12 | #525 |
| 1890 | — | — | 17 | #436 |
| 1889 | — | — | 16 | #466 |
| 1888 | — | — | 20 | #418 |
| 1887 | — | — | 13 | #491 |
| 1886 | — | — | 10 | #613 |
| 1885 | — | — | 14 | #500 |
| 1884 | — | — | 11 | #574 |
| 1883 | — | — | 8 | #686 |
| 1882 | — | — | 12 | #541 |
| 1881 | — | — | 9 | #600 |
| 1880 | — | — | 11 | #572 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).