Vasilii

given name · Latin script

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

Vasilii is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 58as Василь(inferred from the name graph)
  • BGBulgaria1 in 147as Васил
  • MDMoldova1 in 236as Vasili

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vasilii itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)

≈760,000 named Василь, est.

#89 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
385 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 58 (inferred from the name graph)

Ukraine, est., as Василь

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ВасилийCyrillic(measured from records)
BasilLatin(measured from records)
ՎասիլիArmenian(measured from records)
ვასილიGeorgian(measured from records)
ΒασιληGreek(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Василий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, Василь in UA Ukraine, Васил in BG Bulgaria and Vasili in MD Moldova.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ 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 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vasilii counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Vasilii is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine#22≈760,000 est.≈1 in 58listedВасиль73
RU Russia#42≈590,000 est.≈1 in 240#13Василий202
BG Bulgaria#1247,441as Васил1 in 14747KВасил159
KZ Kazakhstan#36≈43,000 est.≈1 in 4414KВасилий57
NG Nigeria—≈37,000 est.≈1 in 5.8K—Basil73
MD Moldova#3214,252as Vasili1 in 23614KVasili27

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; NSI — most common given names (population); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Vasilii is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Vasiliï, Vasilīĭ, Vasiliĭ, Vasiliǐ

  • Hungarian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Hungary

    Also written Vasiliĭ

  • Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Russia, Moldova, Ukraine

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Vasiliĭ

  • Lithuanian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Vasilīĭ, Vasiliĭ

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Russia, Moldova

    Also written Vasiliĭ

  • Greek given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Cyprus, Greece

    Also written Vasiliĭ

23 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(measured from records)

Vasilii is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, "king, emperor."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Wilhelm Kotarbiński, b. 1848Vasilij Ivanovič Denisov, b. 1862Vasily Chekrygin, b. 1897Vasili Kojucharov, b. 1937Vasili Bogazianos, b. 1945Vasili Pankov, b. 1968Vasili Zeiher, b. 1971Wassyl Slipak, b. 1974Vasili Strokau, b. 1995

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(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Vasilii
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—9.3K#111

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Vasilii a male or female name?
Vasilii 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 are other forms of the name Vasilii?
In the etymology graph, Basilio, Basil and Vasile are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Vasilii have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 763 thousand people named Василь in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Vasilii?
In Bulgaria, the national register counted 47,441 people named Васил in 2018, about 1 in 147 residents.
How common is Vasilii compared with other names?
In Ukraine, Vasilii is the 22nd most common given name of 85,149 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Vasilii” — the 22nd most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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