Vasilyeva
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vasilyeva is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- BGBulgaria1 in 182as Василева
- RURussia≈1 in 594as Васильева
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 Vasilyeva 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #425 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 named Васильева, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Васильева in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 1 more, Vasileva in BG Bulgaria, MK North Macedonia and Васильєва in UA Ukraine.
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 across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vasilyeva 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #14 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 594 | — | Васильева | 175 |
| BG Bulgaria | #26 | 38,178as Василева | 1 in 182 | 38K | Vasileva | 134 |
| UA Ukraine | #158 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Васильєва | 52 |
| BY Belarus | #45 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 1 | Васильева | 25 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #65 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Васильева | 43 |
| MK North Macedonia | #88 | 1,536as Василева | 1 in 1.4K | 1.5K | Vasileva | 10 |
| EE Estonia | #18 | 967as Vassiljeva | 1 in 1.3K | 967 | Васильева | 9 |
| US United States | — | 161 | 1 in 2.1M | 282 | Vasilyeva | 116 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Vasilyeva | 24 |
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: NSI — most common surnames (annual press release); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); State Statistical Office — living population names; Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marie Vassilieffb. 1884FRnot in their usual nameRussian artist (1884-1957)
- Liane Berkowitzb. 1923DEnot in their usual nameGerman resistance fighter (1923–1943)
- Vera Vasilyevab. 1925RUSoviet and Russian actress (1925–2023)
- Ekaterina Vasilievab. 1945RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress
- Tatyana Vasilevab. 1947RURussian actress
- Olga Vasilievab. 1960RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician, professor and doctor of philosophy, Russian Minister of Education (2018-2020)
- Olga Vasilyevab. 1972RURussian actress (born 1972)
- Tatjana Vassiljevab. 1977RUnot in their usual nameRussian cellist
- Sofia Vassilievab. 1992USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Marina Vasilyevab. 1993RURussian actress
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 282 | #73,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 161 | #109,758 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- In which country does Vasilyeva have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 239 thousand people named Васильева in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Vasilyeva?
- In the United States, the national register counted 161 people named Vasilyeva in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
- How common is Vasilyeva compared with other names?
- In Russia, Vasilyeva is the 14th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames 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/vasilyevaThe 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, “Vasilyeva” — the 14th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.