BASS
in Illinois
There are 1,413 people with the last name "BASS" in Illinois.
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Meaning & History
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’.
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