Wassily
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Russian form of Basil
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vəˈsɪˌɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wassily is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.1M
- USUnited States≈1 in 13M
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈39 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Russian form of Basil
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wassily 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | 1 | Wassily | 34 |
| US United States | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 13M | listed | Wassily | 48 |
| NL Netherlands | 16 | 1 in 1.1M | 16 | Wassily | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | — | — | Wassily | 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: the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
- Vasilij Kandinskib. 1866FRnot in their usual nameavant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866-1944)
- Wassily Sapellnikoffb. 1867UARussian pianist and composer (1867–1941)
- Wassily von Kwetzinskyb. 1898NORussian-born Norwegian music critic (1898-1970)
- Wassily Hoeffdingb. 1914USAmerican statistician
- Wassily Zechyrb. 1968ATactor
- Wassily Gerassimezb. 1991DEGerman cellist and composer
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 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 16 | #13,459 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 6 | #38,231 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2008 | 1 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Wassily mean, and where does it come from?
- Russian form of Basil Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Wassily?
- A machine transcription gives /vəˈsɪˌɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Wassily a male or female name?
- Wassily 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 Wassily?
- In the etymology graph, Basil is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Wassily have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 people named Wassily in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wassily.
- Where is Wassily most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wassily is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.1 million people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wassily?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 16 people named Wassily, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Wassily?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wassilyThe 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, “Wassily”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.