Vasu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: aclass of Devas (५); Agni (५); Indra (५); name of
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/vəsu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vasu is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 623K(measured from records)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 12K
- BHBahrain≈1 in 17K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 216 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kuwait, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)aclass of Devas (५); Agni (५); Indra (५); name of
Cited for this meaning 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vasu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Vasu | 10 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Vasu | 30 |
| US United States | — | 534 | 1 in 623K | 468 | Vasu | 216 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Vasu | 35 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Vasu | 17 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Vasu | 8 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Vasu | 11 |
| BH Bahrain | #735 | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Vasu | 5 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)Vasu is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Sanskrit: ‘bright’, ‘beneficent’, ‘excellent’, an epithet of various gods, including Indra, Agni, and Vishnu; also the name of one of the seven great ancient sages, authors of the Rig-Veda; often used as an abbreviation of Vasudeva, a name of Vishnu and of the father of Krishna.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, Any of the attendant deities of Indra, and later Vishnu. They are eight elemental gods representing aspects of nature.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Visnu (K)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In German, männl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (sans krit. vasu »Wohlstand, Reichtum«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Finnish, basket (usually made of wooden shakes or woven from willow)
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)- Octavian Vasub. 1850HUHungarian lawyer
- Mona Vasub. 1982INIndian actress
- Ioan VasuRORomanian politician from Râciu, Mureș County
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 379 | #57,938 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 274 | #71,265 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 172 | #97,848 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Vasu a male or female name?
- Vasu is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Vasu mean, and where does it come from?
- aclass of Devas (५); Agni (५); Indra (५); name of Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- How do you pronounce Vasu?
- A machine transcription gives /vəsu/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Vasu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Vasu in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vasu.
- How common is the name Vasu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 534 people named Vasu in 2020, about 1 in 623 thousand residents.
- How common is Vasu compared with other names?
- In Bahrain, Vasu is the 735th most common given name of 6,583 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/vasuThe 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, “Vasu” — the 735th most common given name in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.