Vassili
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Estonian: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Васи́лий (Vasílij), equivalent to Basil
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vasiʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vassili is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 186K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 2.8K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 106K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈960 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Васи́лий (Vasílij), equivalent to Basil
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Vassili is read(measured from records)
Vassili is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French28%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vassili in French.
- English24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vassili in English.
- Estonian13%
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Васи́лий (Vasílij), equivalent to Basil
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German8.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vassili in German.
- Russian7.7%
de hasileus, roi.
as a nameRussian Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vassili 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Vassili | 3 |
| EE Estonia | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 1.1K | Vassili | 6 |
| FR France | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 186K | 570 | Vassili | 163 |
| US United States | 159 | 1 in 2.1M | 157 | Vassili | 24 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 789K | — | Vassili | 2 |
| BE Belgium | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Vassili | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Vassili | 3 |
| GR Greece | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 238K | — | Vassili | 21 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ee-stat-nimed 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Vassili 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 Portuguese, a male given name from Russian, equivalent to English Vasily
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Vasily II of Moscowb. 1415RUnot in their usual nameGrand Prince of Moscow (1415-1462)
- Vasili IV of Russiab. 1552RUnot in their usual nameTsar 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)
- 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. 1926RUnot in their usual nameSoviet submarine officer who averted nuclear war (1926–1998)
- Vasily Alekseyevb. 1942RUnot in their usual nameSoviet-Russian weightlifter (1942–2011)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 1.1K | #157 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 570 | #2,175 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 157 | #43,957 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #43,957 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vassili mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Russian male given name Васи́лий (Vasílij), equivalent to Basil Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Vassili a male or female name?
- Vassili 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.
- How do you pronounce Vassili?
- A machine transcription gives /vasiʎi/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Vassili have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 959 people named Vassili in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vassili.
- How common is the name Vassili?
- In the United States, the national register counted 159 people named Vassili in 2020, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Vassili?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vassiliThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Vassili”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.