Basilia

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Basilia is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name10K records spelled Basilia8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Brazil, Philippines

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Bäsilia, Baesilia

• Georgian surname619 records spelled Basilia2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Georgia

  Also written Ბასილია

• a separate given name446 records spelled Basilia2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Bolivia, United Kingdom

  Also written Basília

• Arabic given name241 records spelled Basilia2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Peru, Kuwait

  Also written Basília

• Russian surname99 records spelled Basilia9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Peru, United States, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Басилия, Басіліа, Basilía

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Basilia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of basilīum

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

AR datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) — 83 years between 1922–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Basilia Teresa Istúriz y Cocab. 1830ESSpanish soprano
• Basilia Pareja RuizESSpanish politician

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 422 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Basilia?

We estimate roughly 4.1 thousand people bear Basilia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Basilia have the most bearers?

Basilia is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled basilia.

How common is Basilia compared with other names?

In Peru, Basilia is the 736th most common given name of 221,790 given names recorded there.

Is Basilia a male or female name?

Basilia is a female 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.