Vassilis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vəsɪɫɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vassilis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country, where it is the 44th most common given name.
- GRGreece≈1 in 1.1Kas Vasilis(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 47Kas Vasilios
- DEGermany≈1 in 56Kas Vassilios
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 Vassilis 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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- 1 in 318 (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,500 named Vasilis, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, as Βασιλης
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Vasilios in US United States, AU Australia, JM Jamaica, Vasilis in CY Cyprus, SE Sweden, Βασιλειος in GR Greece and Vassilios in DE Germany.
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 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vassilis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | #44 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 979 | Βασιλειος | 175 |
| CY Cyprus | #192 | 3,985as Βασιλης | 1 in 318 | 4K | Vasilis | 64 |
| US United States | — | 2,150as Vasilios | 1 in 155K | 2.1K | Vasilios | 242 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 56K | listed | Vassilios | 91 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 4 | Vasilios | 85 |
| SE Sweden | — | 270as Vasileios | 1 in 38K | 270 | Vasilis | 22 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Vasilios | 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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-munich-vornamen register; CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Basil of Caesareab. 329TRnot in their usual name4th-century Christian bishop, theologian, and saint (329–379)
- Basil Ib. 811TRnot in their usual nameByzantine emperor from 867 to 886
- Vasilios Lekapenosb. 925TRByzantine official
- Basil IIb. 958TRnot in their usual nameByzantine Emperor from the Macedonian dynasty
- Basil Zaharoffb. 1849FRnot in their usual nameGreek-born arms dealer and industrialist (1849-1936)
- Vassilis Photopoulosb. 1934GRGreek painter, scenographer and art director (1934-2007)
- Vasilios Markesinisb. 1944GRGreek university professor
- Vangelis Meimarakisb. 1953GRnot in their usual nameGreek politician
- Vasilios Kotroniasb. 1964GRGreek chess player
- Filippos Tigkasb. 2002CYnot in their usual nameCypriot basketball player (born 2002)
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 36 | #17,062 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 11 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Vassilis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.5 thousand people named Vasilis in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Vassilis most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Vassilis itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Cyprus's: the national register counts about 1 in 318 people named Βασιλης.
- How do you pronounce Vassilis?
- A machine transcription gives /vəsɪɫɪs/ (IPA) for Greek.
- Is Vassilis a male or female name?
- Vassilis 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 Vassilis?
- In the etymology graph, Basilio, Basil and Vasile are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Vassilis?
- In Cyprus, the national register counted 3,985 people named Βασιλης in 2011, about 1 in 318 residents.
- How common is Vassilis compared with other names?
- In Greece, Vassilis is the 44th most common given name of 24,546 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vassilis?
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/vassilisThe 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, “Vassilis” — the 44th most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.