Basta Family History

Italian (southern): perhaps from the personal name Basta from basta ‘that's enough!’ (i.e. enough children in the family). Since the surname is found among the Albanian speakers of Calabria and Sicily it may alternatively be of Albanian origin probably related to 4 below.

Polish: from a pet form of the personal name Bastian (short form of Sebastian). Czech and Slovak (Bašta): from a pet form of the personal name Bartoloměj (Czech) Bartolomej (Slovak) (see Bartholomew) or perhaps a nickname from bašta ‘bastion’.

Serbian and Croatian: occupational name from bastah ‘porter’ from medieval Greek vastazos from classical Greek bastazōn ‘carrying’.

Coptic (Egypt): probably from a placename Basta where according to the Coptic tradition the Holy Family drank from a spring of water which Jesus caused to well up from the ground.

Muslim (Egypt and Maghreb): from basṭā probably of the same Greek origin as 4 above used as a surname.