BASANEZ (with egne), there are two houses in Bizkaia with this surname, and Both are in Lejona, Bizkaia, one is Basanez Mayor, or basanez Aurrekoa, and the other is Basanez menor or Basanez atzekoa. lejona or Leioa is close to Urduliz, there were branches also in Morga (Bizk).

Coat of arms: en azur un arbol de su color natural, acostado de dos aspas de plata puestas debajo de la copa, y sobre el arbol una panela de plata

There were nobility proves in Bilbao in 1778 and 1791 (it was only necesary to prove basque origin).

The meaning is not clear, can be a derivate from BASO that means forest, but the sufix EZ is strange in basque surnames, so there are authors that believes that BAZAN was a name and EZ is a derivative that means son of.......it is difficult to know but I prefer " forest place"

BASANEZ

Originates in the Anteiglesia or Parish of Morga in Guernica, province of Vizcaya. (also BASANES)

This surname is derrived from the root word for forest (Basa). In this case, an abundant or lush forest. Similar or related surnames would be Basaran, Basarate, Basagutia and Basagoitia.

The Coat of Arms is a tree of natural colors (brown trunk/green leaves) on a blue background. To either side of the tree trunk their is a silver x and just above the tree is a silver "panela" (I don't have a translation for this word but it's a little symbol which looks like an upside down Spade from an American deck of cards.)

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raul_7wey at yahoo dot com 26-May-2009 21:01 #9663 my last name is basañez too and i had a project from school resiently and it was realy hard to find anithing of it it would be cool to find out what it means and were it comes from....
MYRNAB2001 at HOTMAIL dot COM 14-Mar-2008 17:38 #7118 SO I SUPPOSED THAT ALL THESE PLACES THAT YOU TALK OF ARE IN SPAIN? BECAUSE IM BASANEZ TOO BUT I DONT KNOW WHERE MY LAST NAME DERIVES FROM UNTIL NOW
ANGUSJHUCK at aol dot com 21-Apr-2006 18:27 #2911 BASANEZ reads like an Iberian personal name composed of the elements BAS "forest, wilderness" and NES "I am". (BASO becomes BASA- in compounds in Basque, BASI- or BAS- in Iberian.) Possibly, the name was BAZTANIZ, and was altered to BASANEZ due to contamination with the presumed personal name. (In a similar vein, English slang converts SKELETON into SKELLINGTON.) Angus J Huck
josu dot basanez at euskalnet dot net 15-Jan-2005 13:55 #1111 Hi, BLAS !!! Congratulations for your exceptional work. As you can see, I´m also a Basañez. I live in Las Arenas-Getxo (2 km. from Leioa). BIZKAIA. My aunt always says that she had heard from the olders in the family, that the first origin of all the Basañez people is Morga (Alto de Morga). The mountain the first Basañez came from, who went to Leioa and founded their main Caserío. Later, when the Carlist war, some of them crossed Nervión river from Ondiz-Lamiako (Leioa) to Portugalete and Sestao. About the meaning of BASAÑEZ, I think that people is always copying what they had read in previous books, and in this case, with sort results. I propuose a new and easy meaning: BASA-OINEZ (aprox= down the forest = al pie del bosque), that sounds "BASAÑEZ". ITS SIMPLE, and if you know Morga or Leioa, both were in origin in two different forests. See you, and sorry for my english.
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