Vasile
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vasile/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vasile is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 166(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 38K
- MDMoldova1 in 67
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- 1 in 67 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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(measured from records)
a male given name from Ancient Greek
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vasile 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #236 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 166 | 440K | Vasile | 52 |
| MD Moldova | #200 | 49,963 | 1 in 67 | 50K | Vasile | 25 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | 2 | Vasile | 35 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,844 | 1 in 8.6K | 6.1K | Vasile | 30 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Vasile | 96 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 309 | Vasile | 15 |
| IS Iceland | — | 99 | 1 in 3.5K | 99 | — | — |
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: DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; e-services.md — living population register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Vasile is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, variante meridional de Basile
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Basile
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Albanian, king
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)
- Vasile Lupub. 1595BGMoldavian prince
- Vasile Alecsandrib. 1821RORomanian poet, playwright, politician, and diplomat
- Vasile Mileab. 1927RORomanian general and politician (1927-1989)
- Vasile Iordacheb. 1950RORomanian footballer (born 1950)
- Vasile Andreib. 1955RORomanian Greco-Roman wrestler
- Vasile Dîncub. 1961RORomanian politician
- Vasile Tarlevb. 1963MDMoldovian politician, former Prime Minister
- Dan Petrescub. 1967ROnot in their usual nameRomanian football manager (born 1967)
- Florin Cîțub. 1972ROnot in their usual name69th Prime Minister of Romania (2020-2021)
- Olimpiu Moruțanb. 1999ROnot in their usual nameRomanian association football player (born 1999)
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 63 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.5K | #2,019 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.5K | #2,017 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 309 | #5,511 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 82 | #18,080 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Vasile mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Ancient Greek Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Vasile?
- In the etymology graph, Vasyl, Basilio and Basil are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Vasile?
- A machine transcription gives /vasile/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- Is Vasile a male or female name?
- Vasile 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 Vasile have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 128 thousand people named Vasile in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vasile.
- Where is Vasile most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vasile is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 67 people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vasile?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 49,963 people named Vasile, about 1 in 67 residents.
- How common is Vasile compared with other names?
- In Romania, Vasile is the 236th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vasile?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vasileThe 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, “Vasile” — the 236th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.