Vasil

given name · Bulgarian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Vasil is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bulgarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Bulgarian Васил (Vasil).

rarermore common
  • RORomania1 in 24◐
  • MDMoldova1 in 67
  • UAUkraine1 in 68

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈184K ●

across 12 countries

#153 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
334 ●

6.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 67 ◐

Moldova

Spellings & scripts●

ВасилийCyrillic · Russian●6.3M records
VasileLatin · Hungarian●879K records
ᲕასილGeorgian · Georgian●11K records
ՎասիլիArmenian · Armenian●41 records
ΒασιληGreek · Greek●23 records

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Василий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 6 more, Basil in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 more, Vasile in RO Romania, DE Germany and Васил in BG Bulgaria, MK North Macedonia.

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●

Derivation of Vasil: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Vasil
  1. BulgarianВасилVasil●
  2. Byzantine GreekΒασίλειοςBasíleios“kingly”◐via Васил

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

Borrowed from Bulgarian Васил (Vasil).

Sources 1

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Vasil is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#416,014,2231.5M rec.—#13Василий182
UA Ukraine#224,674,7444.6M rec.—listedВасиль68
RO Romania#61,322,6021.2K rec.—440KVasile52
MD Moldova#4149,963△1.5K rec.1 in 6750KVasili28
BG Bulgaria#1347,441△13K rec.1 in 14747KВасил149
PL Poland#48038,264△817 rec.1 in 1K38KVasili35
TR Türkiye—35,3563.5K rec.——Василий17
KG Kyrgyzstan#10927,4805K rec.——Василий21
BY Belarus#3825,5585.6K rec.—32Василий37
FR France—18,040△937 rec.1 in 3.8K18KVasilii85
GB United Kingdom—12,15013K rec.—4Basil127
DE Germany—7,8098.9K rec.—1Vasile94

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Bulgarian399K78%
  • English54K11%
  • Albanian15K3%
  • Georgian13K3%
  • Czech8K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Bulgarian398,69878%
English53,95711%
Albanian15,1153%
Georgian12,8263%
Czech8,0242%

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◐

Vasil is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Albanian given name15K records spelled Vasil2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Vãsil

  • Spanish given name6.8K records spelled Vasil8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Ukraine

    Languages: Spanish, French, Catalan

    Also written Vásil, Vãsįl, Vasīl

  • Hindi given name4.1K records spelled Vasil5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Ukraine, Italy

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Vāṣil

  • a separate given name2.4K records spelled Vasil6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Ukraine, Russia

    Also written Vasil', Vasiľ, Vasìl', Vāṣil, Vasil̕

  • Turkish given name1.7K records spelled Vasil4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United States, Ukraine

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Vaşil

  • Greek given name778 records spelled Vasil3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, Türkiye, United Kingdom

    Also written Βασιλ, Βασίλ

40 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●

Vasil is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Васі́ль (Vasílʹ).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In tao, fishhook

    as a wordkaikki.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●

02040608020002005201020152020

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Vasil in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199928
200028
200127
200228
200330
200431
200530
200632
200733
200839
200943
201043
201147
201250
201350
201454
201557
201658
201758
201862
201964
202065

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Vasil Levski, b. 1837Vasyl Stefanyk, b. 1871Vasyl Krychevsky, b. 1872Vasil Kolarov, b. 1877Vasyl Barvinsky, b. 1888Vasyl Symonenko, b. 1935Vasyl Stus, b. 1938Vasily Ignatenko, b. 1961Vasyl Ivanchuk, b. 1969Vasyl Lomachenko, b. 1988
  • Vasil Levskib. 1837BGBulgarian revolutionary (1837–1873)
  • Vasyl Stefanykb. 1871UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian writer (1871–1936)
  • Vasyl Krychevskyb. 1872VEnot in their usual nameUkrainian artist (1872-1952)
  • Vasil Kolarovb. 1877BGBulgarian politician (1877—1950)
  • Vasyl Barvinskyb. 1888UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian composer and pianist (1888–1963)
  • Vasyl Symonenkob. 1935UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian poet (1935–1963)
  • Vasyl Stusb. 1938UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian poet, publicist and dissident (1938–1985)
  • Vasily Ignatenkob. 1961BYnot in their usual nameSoviet firefighter who responded to the Chernobyl disaster (1961–1986)
  • Vasyl Ivanchukb. 1969UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian chess player
  • Vasyl Lomachenkob. 1988UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian boxer

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 53 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Vasil
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—3.2K#89
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—1.5K#411
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020874#13,698
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000857#26,717
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010826#28,809
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020811#30,753
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—742#459
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—742#452
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026617#626
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—594#618
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—518#2,059
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—475#4,735

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 146 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vasil?
We estimate roughly 184 thousand people bear Vasil (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Vasil have the most bearers?
Vasil is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled василий.
How common is Vasil compared with other names?
In Russia, Vasil is the 41st most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Vasil a male or female name?
Vasil 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.
What does the name Vasil mean?
Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Bulgarian Васил (Vasil).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Vasil” — the 41st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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