Basing Family History

from Basing (Hants). The place-name is from the Old English gicen name Basa + the suffix -ingas denoting a group associated with the person named. It may occasionally be from a place of the same name in Ankerwyke (Bucks).

occasionally perhaps from the Middle English personal name Basing or Besing perhaps an Old English pet form of Old Scandinavian Bassi or Bessi (a recognized pet-form via bersi of bjǫrn ‘bear’) or perhaps Old English Bassa.

Apart from the 1202 example the following bearers may alternatively belong with (1).