Vasili
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vasɪʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vasili 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.
- MDMoldova1 in 236(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 58as Василь
- BGBulgaria1 in 147as Васил
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 Vasili 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 236 (inferred from the name graph)
≈760,000 named Василь, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
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 Basil in NG Nigeria.
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.
Sources 1
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vasili 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 | 14,252 | 1 in 236 | 14K | Vasili | 27 |
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. 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)
Vasili 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 scn, a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Basil, Vasilios, or Vasily
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Russian form of BASIL .
as a word
In Latvian, Andrupenes pagasta apdzīvotās vietas "Vasiļi" nosaukums latgaliski
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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. 1552RUTsar 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)
- Vasily Ivanovich Chuikovb. 1900RUnot in their usual nameSoviet marshal (1900–1982)
- 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. 1926RUSoviet submarine officer who averted nuclear war (1926–1998)
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 40 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 14K | #82 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Is Vasili a male or female name?
- Vasili 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 Vasili?
- In the etymology graph, Basilio, Basil and Vasile are forms of the same name in other languages; Vasya and Vaska are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Vasili?
- A machine transcription gives /vasɪʎi/ (IPA) for Georgian.
- In which country does Vasili have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 763 thousand people named Василь in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Vasili most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vasili is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 236 people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vasili?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 14,252 people named Vasili, about 1 in 236 residents.
- How common is Vasili compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Vasili is the 22nd most common given name of 85,149 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vasili?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vasiliThe 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, “Vasili” — the 22nd most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.