Vasili
given name · Romanian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vasili is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Romanian and Georgian, written in the Latin script.
- 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 ●
- #153 ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 334 ●
- 1 in 67 ◐
across 12 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
6.5M records
Official registry-verified
Moldova
Spellings & scripts●
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 Vasile in RO Romania, DE Germany.
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.
Sources 1
Attested across 12 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #41 | 6,014,223 | 1.5M rec. | — | #13 | Василий | 182 |
| UA Ukraine | #22 | 4,674,744 | 4.6M rec. | — | listed | Василь | 68 |
| RO Romania | #6 | 1,322,602 | 1.2K rec. | — | 440K | Vasile | 52 |
| MD Moldova | #41 | 49,963△ | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 67 | 50K | Vasili | 28 |
| BG Bulgaria | #13 | 47,441△ | 13K rec. | 1 in 147 | 47K | Васил | 149 |
| PL Poland | #480 | 38,264△ | 817 rec. | 1 in 1K | 38K | Vasili | 35 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 35,356 | 3.5K rec. | — | — | Василий | 17 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #109 | 27,480 | 5K rec. | — | — | Василий | 21 |
| BY Belarus | #38 | 25,558 | 5.6K rec. | — | 32 | Василий | 37 |
| FR France | — | 18,040△ | 937 rec. | 1 in 3.8K | 18K | Vasilii | 85 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 12,150 | 13K rec. | — | 4 | Basil | 127 |
| DE Germany | — | 7,809 | 8.9K rec. | — | 1 | Vasile | 94 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Romanian15K34%
- Georgian9.6K22%
- Polish7.2K17%
- English2K5%
- Finnish1.9K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Romanian | 14,713 | 34% |
| Georgian | 9,590 | 22% |
| Polish | 7,150 | 17% |
| English | 1,985 | 5% |
| Finnish | 1,868 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Vasili 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 scn, a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Basil, Vasilios, or Vasily
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Russian form of BASIL .
as a word
In Latvian, Andrupenes pagasta apdzīvotās vietas "Vasiļi" nosaukums latgaliski
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 2000 | 6 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 8 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 12 |
| 2007 | 9 |
| 2008 | 7 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2010 | 7 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2012 | 7 |
| 2013 | 14 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 6 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 8 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 11 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 27 years between 1976–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Vasily II of Moscowb. 1415RUnot in their usual nameGrand Prince of Moscow (1415-1462)
- Vasili IV of Russiab. 1552RUTsar of Russia (1606–1610)
- Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovskyb. 1783RUnot in their usual nameRussian poet (1783-1852)
- Vasily Vereshchaginb. 1842RUnot in their usual nameRussian painter (1842-1904)
- Vasilij Kandinskib. 1866FRnot in their usual nameavant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866-1944)
- Vasily Ivanovich Chuikovb. 1900RUnot in their usual nameSoviet marshal (1900–1982)
- Wassily Leontiefb. 1906USnot in their usual nameRussian economist (1906-1999)
- Vasily Zaytsevb. 1915RUnot in their usual nameSoviet sniper (1915-1991)
- Vasily Smyslovb. 1921RUnot in their usual nameSoviet chess grandmaster (1921–2010)
- Vasili Arkhipovb. 1926RUSoviet submarine officer who averted nuclear war (1926–1998)
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 39 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 14K | #82 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 1.8K | #372 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.7K | #368 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 580 | #1,937 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 561 | #18,954 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 209 | #13,704 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 111 | #2,155 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 105 | #27,573 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 96 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 73 | #20,270 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 71 | #9,720 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 54 | #11,444 |
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 · 124 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Vasili?
- We estimate roughly 184 thousand people bear Vasili (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Vasili have the most bearers?
- Vasili is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled василий.
- How common is Vasili compared with other names?
- In Russia, Vasili is the 41st most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Vasili a male or female name?
- Vasili 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.
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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, “Vasili” — the 41st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.