Vasilis
given name · Greek · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vasilis is a given name, most frequently recorded in Greece, where it is the 46th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Greek and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Βασίλης (Vasílis).
- CYCyprus1 in 318◐
- GRGreece1 in 1.8K
- DEGermany1 in 21K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.8K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 219 ●
- 1 in 318 ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
53K records
Official registry-verified
Cyprus
Spellings & scripts●
6 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vasilios in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 9 more, Vasileios in SE Sweden, NO Norway, DK Denmark and 4 more, Vassilios in DE Germany, BE Belgium, FI Finland and 1 more 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●
A transliteration of the Greek male given name Βασίλης (Vasílis).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | #46 | 18,963 | 9.6K rec. | — | 979 | Vasilis | 161 |
| DE Germany | — | 5,794 | 5.1K rec. | — | 1 | Vassilios | 88 |
| CY Cyprus | #49 | 3,985△ | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 318 | 4K | Βασιλης | 58 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,580 | 2.8K rec. | — | — | Vasilios | 85 |
| AU Australia | — | 3,366 | 2.7K rec. | — | 4 | Vasilios | 84 |
| US United States | — | 2,148 | 26K rec. | 1 in 155K | 2.1K | Vasilios | 219 |
| CA Canada | — | 926 | 701 rec. | — | 1 | Vasilios | 38 |
| FR France | — | 547 | 375 rec. | — | listed | Vassilis | 77 |
| BE Belgium | — | 371 | 355 rec. | — | — | Vassilios | 24 |
| SE Sweden | — | 270 | 344 rec. | 1 in 38K | 270 | Vasileios | 20 |
| NO Norway | — | 269 | 25 rec. | — | 268 | Vasileios | 11 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 257 | 281 rec. | — | — | Vasilios | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Greek8.5K63%
- English2K15%
- German9797%
- Czech1841%
- French1801%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Greek | 8,516 | 63% |
| English | 2,004 | 15% |
| German | 979 | 7% |
| Czech | 184 | 1% |
| French | 180 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 7 |
| 1984 | 7 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1999 | 9 |
| 2000 | 11 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2002 | 6 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2004 | 7 |
| 2005 | 6 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2021 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 28 years between 1978–2021. 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
- 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 Vassilikosb. 1933GRnot in their usual nameGreek writer and diplomat (1933-2023)
- Vassilis Alexakisb. 1943GRnot in their usual nameGreek-French writer
- Vangelis Meimarakisb. 1953GRnot in their usual nameGreek politician
- Vasilis Karrasb. 1953GRGreek singer (1953–2023)
- Vassilis Spanoulisb. 1982GRnot in their usual nameGreek basketball player (born 1982)
- Vasilis Torosidisb. 1985GRGreek international footballer (born 1985)
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 37 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 300 | #29,411 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 114 | #7,804 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 70 | #9,710 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 54 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 53 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 46 | — |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 43 | #1,413 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 43 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #10,878 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 39 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 37 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 36 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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 · 107 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Vasilis?
- We estimate roughly 6.8 thousand people bear Vasilis (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Vasilis have the most bearers?
- Vasilis is most frequently recorded in Greece, where it is most often spelled vasilis.
- Where is Vasilis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vasilis is densest in Cyprus — about 1 in 318 people — even though Greece holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Vasilis compared with other names?
- In Greece, Vasilis is the 46th most common given name of 23,464 given names recorded there.
- Is Vasilis a male or female name?
- Vasilis 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 Vasilis mean?
- Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Βασίλης (Vasílis).
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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, “Vasilis” — the 46th most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.