Surname BASAJ

People with the surname BASAJ in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026: 376 men and 416 women. Most registered in: MAZOWIECKIE.

6 verified statements

male

376people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 56,376

Most registered in: MAZOWIECKIE (45.4%, 20 January 2026)

female

416people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 51,828

Most registered in: MAZOWIECKIE (43.3%, 20 January 2026)

Each 1-in-X is computed within its own dataset. The datasets are different sizes, so these two figures are not compared with each other.

How many people have this surname?

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How many people have this surname?

The PESEL register publishes two separate surname lists, male and female. We show each figure on its own and never add them up.

male

376 people were registered with the surname BASAJ (male) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

female

416 people were registered with the surname BASAJ (female) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.

How rare is this surname?

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How rare is this surname?

“1 in X” means that roughly one in every X people on this list has this surname. The bigger X, the rarer the name. The rank counts from the most common surname on the list.

male

about 1 in 56,376

#8,645 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 56,376 people counted in the PESEL register (male) bore the surname BASAJ on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

BASAJ (male) ranked 8,645 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #8,620ZANDER377
  2. #8,620ZAWILIŃSKI377
  3. #8,645BASAJ this surname376
  4. #8,664CHWALISZ375
  5. #8,664DANILOV375

female

about 1 in 51,828

#7,932 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 51,828 people counted in the PESEL register (female) bore the surname BASAJ on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

BASAJ (female) ranked 7,932 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #7,913YERMAKOVA417
  2. #7,913ZDZIEBŁOWSKA417
  3. #7,932BASAJ this surname416
  4. #7,951BRUDNY415
  5. #7,951SZWIEC415

Two places above and two below on the same list. Surnames with the same count share a place.

Where is it most often registered?

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Where is it most often registered?

The map and the list show the voivodeships where people with this surname have a registered permanent address. The brighter the colour and the longer the bar, the bigger the share.

male

Among the 357 people with the surname BASAJ (male) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 45.4% were registered in MAZOWIECKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 2.8% (10)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 4.5% (16)LUBELSKIE: 28.0% (100)LUBUSKIE: 2.8% (10)ŁÓDZKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroMAŁOPOLSKIE: 0.8% (3)MAZOWIECKIE: 45.4% (162)OPOLSKIE: 3.9% (14)PODKARPACKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPODLASKIE: 0.6% (2)POMORSKIE: 4.2% (15)ŚLĄSKIE: 2.8% (10)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: 0.8% (3)WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: 0.8% (3)WIELKOPOLSKIE: 0.8% (3)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 1.7% (6)

Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.

Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
  • 0%–10%
  • 10%–20%
  • 20%–30%
  • 30%–40%
  • 40%–50%
  • not listed in the dataset — not zero
Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
VoivodeshipShareCount
MAZOWIECKIE45.4%162
LUBELSKIE28.0%100
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE4.5%16
POMORSKIE4.2%15
OPOLSKIE3.9%14
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE2.8%10
LUBUSKIE2.8%10
ŚLĄSKIE2.8%10
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE1.7%6
MAŁOPOLSKIE0.8%3
ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE0.8%3
WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE0.8%3
WIELKOPOLSKIE0.8%3
PODLASKIE0.6%2

female

Among the 402 people with the surname BASAJ (female) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 43.3% were registered in MAZOWIECKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 3.0% (12)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 2.5% (10)LUBELSKIE: 28.9% (116)LUBUSKIE: 2.5% (10)ŁÓDZKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroMAŁOPOLSKIE: 1.0% (4)MAZOWIECKIE: 43.3% (174)OPOLSKIE: 3.5% (14)PODKARPACKIE: 0.5% (2)PODLASKIE: 1.0% (4)POMORSKIE: 5.0% (20)ŚLĄSKIE: 3.2% (13)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: 1.0% (4)WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: 2.0% (8)WIELKOPOLSKIE: 1.0% (4)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 1.7% (7)

Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.

Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
  • 0%–10%
  • 10%–20%
  • 20%–30%
  • 30%–40%
  • 40%–50%
  • not listed in the dataset — not zero
Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
VoivodeshipShareCount
MAZOWIECKIE43.3%174
LUBELSKIE28.9%116
POMORSKIE5.0%20
OPOLSKIE3.5%14
ŚLĄSKIE3.2%13
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE3.0%12
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE2.5%10
LUBUSKIE2.5%10
WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE2.0%8
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE1.7%7
MAŁOPOLSKIE1.0%4
PODLASKIE1.0%4
ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE1.0%4
WIELKOPOLSKIE1.0%4
PODKARPACKIE0.5%2

How did this count change between editions of the list?

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How did this count change between editions of the list?

The PESEL register publishes its lists every year. We show the number of people with this surname on each edition, beside how the whole list changed. We say what changed, not why.

male

The number of people with the surname BASAJ (male) in the PESEL register changed from 397 on 30 June 2019 to 376 on 20 January 2026: −5.3%. The whole list changed by +6.7% between those editions.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

As ofShare of the listPeople
30 June 2019*1 in 50,025397
22 January 20201 in 49,698400
1 February 20211 in 50,601395
27 January 20221 in 51,671391
30 January 20231 in 53,491389
19 January 20241 in 53,649391
22 January 20251 in 54,795385
20 January 20261 in 56,376376

* The 2019 files describe their contents in fewer words than the later ones. We read them as the same list: people with their current surname.

female

The number of people with the surname BASAJ (female) in the PESEL register changed from 425 on 30 June 2019 to 416 on 20 January 2026: −2.1%. The whole list changed by +6.5% between those editions.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

As ofShare of the listPeople
30 June 2019*1 in 47,645425
22 January 20201 in 47,354427
2 February 20211 in 47,124430
27 January 2022The publisher's file dated 27 January 2022 repeats the data of the previous edition, so it is not shown as an edition of its own.
30 January 20231 in 50,163426
19 January 20241 in 51,141420
22 January 20251 in 51,397419
20 January 20261 in 51,828416

* The 2019 files describe their contents in fewer words than the later ones. We read them as the same list: people with their current surname.

What does this surname mean?

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What does this surname mean?

We give a meaning only when a scholarly work supports it. We don't guess.

We have no sourced meaning for this surname. We could not find it in any scholarly work we are able to cite here, and we do not guess at meanings.

Where does it appear in old print?

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Where does it appear in old print?

Polona, the National Library's digital library, searches its catalogue and the text of its scanned pages. We show how many results it returns for this word, and from which years.

The word BASAJ appears on 451 pages of works not under copyright and in 24 catalogue records in Polona (searched on 5 October 2026).

VerifiedDigital libraryPoland · Biblioteka Narodowa · 5 October 2026

These are search results for the word in any inflected form. Some may be another meaning of the same spelling, and they are not a count of people or of mentions of anyone's family.

Pages by date of publication
  1. 1800–18492
  2. 1850–189910
  3. 1900–19182
  4. 1919–193951
  5. 1940 on378

Catalogue records by kind

  • Periodicals6
  • Books2
  • Articles1

Most common places of publication

  • Warszawa362
  • Kraków19
  • Poznań12
  • Lublin7
  • Lwów5
  • Krakau4

Example pages in the public domain

„Graljda Lucjan, Grajda Antoni, Li siecki Stefan, Pietrzyk Stefan, Basaj Stefan, Tracz Jerzy, Bożym Tadeusz”

Po latach dwunastu : zarys działalności w latach 1922-19341935 · p. 59 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„nieruchomego, będą cego wspólną i niepodzielną, w równych częściach własnością Konstan tego Piłata i Feliksy Basaj”

Obwieszczenia Publiczne : dodatek do Dziennika Urzędowego Ministerstwa Sprawiedliwości. R.14, № 78 (27 września 1930)1930 · p. 25 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„.* ROSADA Janusz, BASAJ Andrzej, ŚWIDZ1ŃSKI Napoleon /■/ Ja- nuś Rosada, Andźej Basaj, Napoleon Svidinski”

Polonica Zagraniczne : bibliografia 19691969 · p. 110 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

Who well known has this surname?

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Who well known has this surname?

We have not looked this surname up in Wikidata yet.

How do we know?

Sources on this page

  • Official data Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji — Nazwiska występujące w rejestrze PESEL · 20 January 2026 · CC0 1.0 · Dane pochodzą z rejestru PESEL, Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, dane.gov.pl (CC0 1.0) · dane.gov.pl
  • Digital library Biblioteka Narodowa — Polona · Polona, Biblioteka Narodowa · polona.pl
How to read these figures
  • Wykaz nazwisk męskich osób żyjących (wg pola nazwisko aktualne) występujących w rejestrze PESEL, stan na 20.01.2026
  • Surnames occurring once are not published; absence from the dataset is not zero.
  • The publisher does not state whether the split is by a person's sex or by the grammatical gender of the surname form. The datasets are therefore neither summed nor compared numerically.
  • The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.
  • Wykaz nazwisk żeńskich osób żyjących (wg pola nazwisko aktualne) występujących w rejestrze PESEL, stan na 20.01.2026
  • Denominator: 21,197,537 people counted in the PESEL register — the sum of the published counts in this dataset, not Poland's population.
  • The 1-in-X figure is rounded; the count of people is exact.
  • Denominator: 21,560,302 people counted in the PESEL register — the sum of the published counts in this dataset, not Poland's population.
  • A permanent registered residence is an address in the register — not an actual address, and not information about a family's roots.
  • Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
  • The size of the list itself changes between editions, so beside the count we show the share of that edition's list (“1 in X”).
  • Polona's figures are search results for the word in any inflected form, in the catalogue and in the text of pages of works not under copyright; not every result is the surname.

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