Vasile

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Vasile is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek.

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●

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

9 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, Vasil in GE Georgia, CZ Czechia, ES Spain 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●

a male given name from Ancient Greek

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Vasile 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●

  • Hungarian879K57%
  • English450K29%
  • Romanian131K8%
  • Spanish36K2%
  • French16K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian879,49357%
English450,33029%
Romanian131,1178%
Spanish36,2662%
French15,8991%

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◐

Vasile is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Romanian given name161K records spelled Vasile7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Moldova, Romania, United States, Spain

    Languages: Romanian, Italian

    Also written Vãsîlē, Vasíle, Văsile

  • Spanish given name53K records spelled Vasile5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Romania, United States, Portugal

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Väsílë, Väsïlë

  • a separate given name999 records spelled Vasile2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Moldova, United Kingdom

    Also written Vasilė

48 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●

Vasile is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, variante meridional de Basile

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Basile

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • In Albanian, king

    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●

010020030020002005201020152020

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Vasile in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199987
200085
200184
200284
200380
200480
200578
200678
2007104
2008134
2009146
2010156
2011164
2012164
2013176
2014185
2015203
2016218
2017229
2018251
2019269
2020277

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●

1400160018002000Vasile Lupu, b. 1595Vasile Alecsandri, b. 1821Vasile Milea, b. 1927Vasile Iordache, b. 1950Vasile Andrei, b. 1955Vasile Dîncu, b. 1961Vasile Tarlev, b. 1963Dan Petrescu, b. 1967Florin Cîțu, b. 1972Olimpiu Moruțan, b. 1999

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 61 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Vasile
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
RO RomaniaDEPABD — name-day population snapshot2019440K—
RO RomaniaDEPABD — resident population names2019440K—
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—50K#16
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—6.1K#356
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—5.8K#798
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.5K#2,019
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.5K#2,017
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20261.6K#392
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.4K#9,590
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.4K#404
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.2K#22,184
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#23,019

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 142 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vasile?
We estimate roughly 184 thousand people bear Vasile (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Vasile have the most bearers?
Vasile is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled василий.
How common is Vasile compared with other names?
In Russia, Vasile is the 41st most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Vasile a male or female name?
Vasile 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 Vasile mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek
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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, “Vasile” — the 41st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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