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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : of uncertain origin; possibly a nickname from the dialect word basior ‘male wolf’, basiora ‘inflorescence’, or basiora ‘sheep or ram’.
  • Ukrainian : variant of Basarab, a regional name for someone from Bessarabia, now Moldova.
  • Serbian : from Turkish basar ‘physical beauty’.
  • Arabic : variant of Bishara.

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