Basileios
given name · Greek · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Basileios is a given name, most frequently recorded in Greece, where it is the 46th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Greek and German, written in the Latin script.
- CYCyprus1 in 318◐
- GRGreece1 in 1.8K
- DEGermany1 in 21K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.8K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 219 ●
- 1 in 318 ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
53K records
Official registry-verified
Cyprus
Spellings & scripts●
6 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vasilios in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 9 more, Vasileios in SE Sweden, NO Norway, DK Denmark and 4 more, Vassilios in DE Germany, BE Belgium, FI Finland and 1 more and Vasilis in GR Greece.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | #46 | 18,963 | 9.6K rec. | — | 979 | Vasilis | 161 |
| DE Germany | — | 5,794 | 5.1K rec. | — | 1 | Vassilios | 88 |
| CY Cyprus | #49 | 3,985△ | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 318 | 4K | Βασιλης | 58 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,580 | 2.8K rec. | — | — | Vasilios | 85 |
| AU Australia | — | 3,366 | 2.7K rec. | — | 4 | Vasilios | 84 |
| US United States | — | 2,148 | 26K rec. | 1 in 155K | 2.1K | Vasilios | 219 |
| CA Canada | — | 926 | 701 rec. | — | 1 | Vasilios | 38 |
| FR France | — | 547 | 375 rec. | — | listed | Vassilis | 77 |
| BE Belgium | — | 371 | 355 rec. | — | — | Vassilios | 24 |
| SE Sweden | — | 270 | 344 rec. | 1 in 38K | 270 | Vasileios | 20 |
| NO Norway | — | 269 | 25 rec. | — | 268 | Vasileios | 11 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 257 | 281 rec. | — | — | Vasilios | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Greek25574%
- German4112%
- English268%
- Dutch62%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Greek | 255 | 74% |
| German | 41 | 12% |
| English | 26 | 8% |
| Dutch | 6 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Basil of Caesareab. 329TRnot in their usual name4th-century Christian bishop, theologian, and saint (329–379)
- Basil Ib. 811TRnot in their usual nameByzantine emperor from 867 to 886
- Vasilios Lekapenosb. 925TRnot in their usual nameByzantine official
- Basil IIb. 958TRnot in their usual nameByzantine Emperor from the Macedonian dynasty
- Basil Zaharoffb. 1849FRnot in their usual nameGreek-born arms dealer and industrialist (1849-1936)
- Vassilis Photopoulosb. 1934GRnot in their usual nameGreek painter, scenographer and art director (1934-2007)
- Vasilios Markesinisb. 1944GRnot in their usual nameGreek university professor
- Vangelis Meimarakisb. 1953GRnot in their usual nameGreek politician
- Vasilios Kotroniasb. 1964GRnot in their usual nameGreek chess player
- Filippos Tigkasb. 2002CYnot in their usual nameCypriot basketball player (born 2002)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 3 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Basileios?
- We estimate roughly 6.8 thousand people bear Basileios (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Basileios have the most bearers?
- Basileios is most frequently recorded in Greece, where it is most often spelled vasilis.
- Where is Basileios most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Basileios is densest in Cyprus — about 1 in 318 people — even though Greece holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Basileios compared with other names?
- In Greece, Basileios is the 46th most common given name of 23,464 given names recorded there.
- Is Basileios a male or female name?
- Basileios is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/basileiosThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Basileios” — the 46th most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.