Wasilij
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wasilij is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- PLPoland
- VEVenezuela
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 32 | #4,645 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 31 | #4,295 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2024 | 1 | #1 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Wasilij a male or female name?
- Wasilij 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.
- In which country does Wasilij have the most bearers?
- Wasilij is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wasilijThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Wasilij”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.