Bass Family History
- Bass Name Meaning
- English: from Old French bas(se) ‘low’, ‘short’ (Latin bassus ‘thickset’; see Basso), either a descriptive nickname for a short person or a status name meaning ‘of humble origin’, not necessarily with derogatory connotations. English: in some instances, from Middle English bace ‘bass’ (the fish), hence a nickname for a person supposedly resembling this fish, or a metonymic occupational name for a fish seller or fisherman. Scottish: habitational name from a place in Aberdeenshire, of uncertain origin. Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a maker or player of bass viols, from Polish, Ukrainian, and Yiddish bas ‘bass viol’. German: see Basse.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,430,119 Historical Documents with Bass on Ancestry
- 493,902 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 286,242 Census and Voter Lists
- 62,375 Military Records
- 22,866 Immigration Records
- 1,564,734 Member Trees
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Number of Bass families
 458 - 914  153 - 457 |
 1 - 152  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bass families
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41 - 80 14 - 40 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bass census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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