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Given name · Bulgarian · Russian · Ukrainian

Вася

Вася (Vásja) is a masculine given name. It is used in Russian and Ukrainian.

Bulgarian and Russian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Vasâ.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Вася comes from Russian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Russian usage, Вася is a diminutive of Василий.

Вася’s family of names

In Russian usage, Вася is a diminutive of Василий. In Russian usage, Вася has a transliteration in Vasâ. In Ukrainian usage, Вася can be written in the Roman alphabet as Vásja.

Walk Вася’s family in the name graph

ВасяVasâVásjaВасилийВасільВасильВасёкВаси́лийІва́сикVasjaВаськВа́ся

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Вася has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Russian roots to each of them.

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Russianwhere Вася comes from · 5 names

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

See also 1

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