Vasileios

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Vasilios in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 9 more, Vassilios in DE Germany, BE Belgium, FI Finland and 1 more, Vasilis in GR Greece and Βασιλης in CY Cyprus.

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 9 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◐

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

• a separate given name365 records spelled Vasileios2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

  Also written Vasíleios

• Russian given name77 records spelled Vasileios8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Cyprus, Russia, Türkiye, Italy

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Василеиос, Васілеіос, Василеіос, Василіос

• Bulgarian given name38 records spelled Vasileios10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Bulgaria, Croatia, United Kingdom

  Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian

  Also written Vasilios, Василиос

31 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.

Over time●

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●

• 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 69 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vasileios?

We estimate roughly 6.8 thousand people bear Vasileios (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Vasileios have the most bearers?

Vasileios is most frequently recorded in Greece, where it is most often spelled vasilis.

Where is Vasileios most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vasileios is densest in Cyprus — about 1 in 318 people — even though Greece holds more of our records for it.

How common is Vasileios compared with other names?

In Greece, Vasileios is the 46th most common given name of 23,464 given names recorded there.

Is Vasileios a male or female name?

Vasileios 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.