Basil
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About Basil
The name Basil is currently ranked #999 in U.S. births. and peaked for boys at #322 in 1897. It is currently rising in popularity. The name is most popular in BASIL, BASIL, and BASIL. Basil is occasionally used for girls in 2025.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,712 | 44 | 22.9 |
| 2015 | #2,429 | 52 | 27.1 |
| 2016 | #2,234 | 60 | 31.6 |
| 2017 | #2,244 | 59 | 31.9 |
| 2018 | #2,066 | 69 | 38 |
| 2019 | #2,047 | 71 | 39.6 |
| 2020 | #2,324 | 58 | 33.6 |
| 2021 | #2,001 | 74 | 42.3 |
| 2022 | #1,828 | 88 | 50.4 |
| 2023 | #2,030 | 74 | 43.3 |
| 2024 | #2,009 | 76 | 44.1 |
| 2025 | #2,022 | 74 | 43.3 |
World rankings
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Famous Basils
- Basil Wolverton
American cartoonist, illustrator, comic book writer,artist
- Basil Arthur
New Zealand politician
- Basil Hetzel
Australian medical researcher
- Basil al
Assad, son and heir,apparent of the late Syrian President Hafez al,Assad
- Basil Brooke
1st Viscount Brookeborough, politician and third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
- Basil Bunting
British modernist poet
- Basil Dearden
British film director
- Basil W. Duke
Confederate American Civil War general and historian
- Air Chief Marshal Basil Embry
British Royal Air Force officer
- Basil Foley
son of actor Dave Foley
- Basil Buzz Hargrove
Canadian former labour union leader
- B. H. Liddell Hart
English soldier, military historian and leading inter,war theorist
- Basil Hiley
British quantum physicist
- Basil Hood
British librettist and lyricist
- Basil Mott
British civil engineer
- Basil O'Connor
American lawyer and chairman and president of the American Red Cross
- Basil Charles Godfrey Place
British Royal Navy rear,admiral and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Basil Radford
British actor
- Basil Rathbone
British actor famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes
- Basil Spence
Scottish architect
- Basil Zaharoff
Turkish,born arms trader and financier, and chairman of the Vickers munitions company during World War I
- Deveraux Octavian Basil Tyler
son of musician Mick Jagger
Basil in pop culture
- Basil
protagonist of Wilkie Collins' 1852 novel "Basil"
- Basil
of the "Basil of Baker Street" novels and the movie "The Great Mouse Detective"
- Basil
a character in the television series "Fraggle Rock"
- Basil Fawlty
the main character in "Fawlty Towers," played by John Cleese
- Basil Brush
a glove puppet fox popular on children's television in the UK
- Basil the Bear (Sesame Park)
main character of the Canadian children's show "Sesame Park"
- Basil
a character in the anime and manga series "Reborn!"
- Basil
a character on the Playhouse Disney TV series "Johnny and the Sprites"
- Basil Wombat
a character on "SeeMore's Playhouse"
- Basil
a character in the breeding and farming game "Harvest Moon"
- Basil Hallward
the artist that paints the haunting portrait of Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
- Basil the Bat Lord
an enemy racer in Lego Racers (video game)
- Basil Stag Hare
member of the Fur and Foot Fighting Patrol in Brian Jacques' "Redwall"
- Basil Hawkins
a character in a popular manga "One Piece"
- Basil Exposition
a character in the Austin Powers films
- Basil
Alex Delarge's snake from the film "A Clockwork Orange"
- Basil Brightberry
the gentlemouse sommelier in the children's "Brambly Hedge" series
- Basil Ransom
a Mississippi lawyer in Henry James's 1886 novel "The Bostonians"
- Basil
a pirate in the film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
- Basil
character in "The Internment Chronicles" by Lauren DeStefano
Variations & nicknames
- BasleSwedish
- BazyliSlavic
- BazelSlavic
- BasulArabic
- VasiliRussian
- VasRussian
- VasilCzech
- VasileRomanian
- VaslekRussian
- WassilyRussian
- BaleFrench
- BasiliusSwedish
- BazilCzech
- VasyaRussian
- VasilyRussian
- BasileFrench
- VazulHungarian
- BreasalIrish
- VassilyRussian
- BasekPolish
- BasilioSpanish
