Vassilis

given name · Greek · Latin script

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

Vassilis 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.

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 10 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
219 ●

53K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 318 ◐

Cyprus

Spellings & scripts●

VasiliosLatin · Greek●12K records
ΒασιληςGreek · Greek●5.5K records

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 Vasilis in GR Greece.

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 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Vassilis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GR Greece#4618,9639.6K rec.—979Vasilis161
DE Germany—5,7945.1K rec.—1Vassilios88
CY Cyprus#493,985△1.1K rec.1 in 3184KΒασιλης58
GB United Kingdom—3,5802.8K rec.——Vasilios85
AU Australia—3,3662.7K rec.—4Vasilios84
US United States—2,14826K rec.1 in 155K2.1KVasilios219
CA Canada—926701 rec.—1Vasilios38
FR France—547375 rec.—listedVassilis77
BE Belgium—371355 rec.——Vassilios24
SE Sweden—270344 rec.1 in 38K270Vasileios20
NO Norway—26925 rec.—268Vasileios11
ZA South Africa—257281 rec.——Vasilios6

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

Languages●

  • Greek2.9K57%
  • English93518%
  • German3898%
  • French3777%
  • Spanish862%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Greek2,91057%
English93518%
German3898%
French3777%
Spanish862%

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◐

Vassilis is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name19 records spelled Vassilis16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Василиос, Василис, Васіліос, Vasilis, Васіліс

  • Bulgarian given name17 records spelled Vassilis12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Vasilis, Василис

29 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●

05101520102015202014 · 2012

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Vassilis in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2006–2020
Yearrecords
200611
200711
200811
200911
201011
201113
201214
201314
201414
201514
201614
201714
201814
201913
202013

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 15 years between 2006–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

05001000150020002500Basil of Caesarea, b. 329Basil I, b. 811Vasilios Lekapenos, b. 925Basil II, b. 958Basil Zaharoff, b. 1849Vassilis Photopoulos, b. 1934Vasilios Markesinis, b. 1944Vangelis Meimarakis, b. 1953Vasilios Kotronias, b. 1964Filippos Tigkas, b. 2002
  • 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. 1934GRGreek 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●

Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Vassilis
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—36#17,062
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201814—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201714—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201614—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201514—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201414—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201314—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201214—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202013—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201913—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201113—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201011—

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 30 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vassilis?
We estimate roughly 6.8 thousand people bear Vassilis (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Vassilis have the most bearers?
Vassilis is most frequently recorded in Greece, where it is most often spelled vasilis.
Where is Vassilis most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vassilis is densest in Cyprus — about 1 in 318 people — even though Greece holds more of our records for it.
How common is Vassilis compared with other names?
In Greece, Vassilis is the 46th most common given name of 23,464 given names recorded there.
Is Vassilis a male or female name?
Vassilis 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

● 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, “Vassilis” — the 46th most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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