Vassiliev

surname · Latin script

/vəsɪɫjəv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Vassiliev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 124K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 977K
  • SESweden1 in 1.3M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Finland (measured from records)

45 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
47 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 124K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VassilievLatin(measured from records)
ВассилиевCyrillic(measured from records)

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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vassiliev 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 Vassiliev is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland451 in 124K45—1
BE Belgium121 in 977K12—2
SE Sweden81 in 1.3M8—1
CH Switzerland61 in 1.4M6—2
DK Denmark31 in 2M3——

45 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Vassiliev is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bulgarian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Russia, United States, Israel

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Vasiliev, Василиев, Vasíliev

27 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Fyodor Vasilyev, b. 1850Alexander Vasiliev, b. 1867Georgi Vasilyev, b. 1899Dmitri Vasilyev, b. 1900Boris Vasilyev, b. 1924Vladimir Vasiliev, b. 1940Anatoly Vasiliev, b. 1942Anatoly Vasilyev, b. 1946Vladimir Vasiliev, b. 1949Konstantin Vassiljev, b. 1984

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)

FormalDear Vassiliev,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 9 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

How do you pronounce Vassiliev?
A machine transcription gives /vəsɪɫjəv/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Vassiliev have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 45 people named Vassiliev, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Vassiliev most common?
Vassiliev is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 124 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Vassiliev?
In Finland, the national register counted 45 people named Vassiliev, about 1 in 124 thousand residents.

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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, “Vassiliev”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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