Basel is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Basel in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Basel in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Basel by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Basel ranks at #5,780. That means there are 5,779 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Basel.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Basel. Boys named Basel have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,026 Basel ranked higher than ever in 1914. By comparison, there have been 89 years in which the first name Basel has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1988. In general, parents name their sons Basel only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Basel was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Basel continues to be a precious jewel: 15 newborns were named Basel that year, ranking #5,043 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Basel, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Basel, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in . However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Basel living in one state or another. (If your name is Basel and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 2,437,136 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Basel. So if your name is Basel, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Basel already makes you quite special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Basel is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Basel and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Basel, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Apple
Sun
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Basel
Basel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
A
S
E
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
A
S
E
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Basel sounds like this:
