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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Bosnian (Bašić) : patronymic from baša ‘senior’, ‘headman’, from Turkish baş ‘head’. Baša was used as a title for a distinguished Muslim in the Ottoman Empire who was not an aga or a bey.

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