Vasil
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vasil 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. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Bulgarian Васил (Vasil).
- 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 Vasil 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)
- #89 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 385 (measured from records)
- 1 in 962 (inferred from the name graph)
≈760,000 named Василь, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
- BulgarianВасилVasil(measured from records)
- Byzantine GreekΒασίλειοςBasíleios“kingly”(inferred from the name graph)via Васил
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Borrowed from Bulgarian Васил (Vasil).
Sources 1
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vasil 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #22 | ≈760,000 est. | ≈1 in 58 | listed | Василь | 73 |
| RU Russia | #42 | ≈590,000 est. | ≈1 in 240 | #13 | Василий | 202 |
| BG Bulgaria | #12 | 47,441as Васил | 1 in 147 | 47K | Васил | 159 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #36 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 441 | 4K | Василий | 57 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Basil | 73 |
| MD Moldova | #32 | 14,252as Vasili | 1 in 236 | 14K | Vasili | 27 |
| AL Albania | — | 3,197 | 1 in 962 | 3.2K | — | 1 |
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; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Vasil is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Васі́ль (Vasílʹ).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tao, fishhook
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)
- Vasil Levskib. 1837BGBulgarian revolutionary (1837–1873)
- Vasyl Stefanykb. 1871UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian writer (1871–1936)
- Vasyl Krychevskyb. 1872VEnot in their usual nameUkrainian artist (1872-1952)
- Vasil Kolarovb. 1877BGBulgarian politician (1877—1950)
- Vasyl Barvinskyb. 1888UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian composer and pianist (1888–1963)
- Vasyl Symonenkob. 1935UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian poet (1935–1963)
- Vasyl Stusb. 1938UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian poet, publicist and dissident (1938–1985)
- Vasily Ignatenkob. 1961BYnot in their usual nameSoviet firefighter who responded to the Chernobyl disaster (1961–1986)
- Vasyl Ivanchukb. 1969UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian chess player
- Vasyl Lomachenkob. 1988UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian boxer
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 56 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — most common given names (population) | 2018 | 47K | #10 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 3.2K | #89 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 8 | #3,104 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Vasil mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Bulgarian Васил (Vasil). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Vasil a male or female name?
- Vasil 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 Vasil?
- In the etymology graph, Vasyl, Basilio and Basil are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Vasil have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 763 thousand people named Василь in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Vasil most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vasil is densest in Albania — about 1 in 962 people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vasil?
- In Albania, the national register counted 3,197 people named Vasil, about 1 in 962 residents.
- How common is Vasil compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Vasil is the 22nd most common given name of 85,149 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vasilThe 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, “Vasil” — the 22nd most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.