Given name & surname
Bazil
“royal”·“of the royal family; a kingly man”
Bazil is a variant of Basil. Interpretations include “royal” (Greek) and “of the royal family; a kingly man” (Greek). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bazil is a variant of Basil. Interpretations include “royal” (Greek) and “of the royal family; a kingly man” (Greek). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Bazil is a variant of Basil. An origin associated with Basil is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bazil through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 161
- 161 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #10,862 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,862 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 216 as a first name in 2020; 687 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bazil’s family of names
Bazil has a related form in Basil. In Hungarian usage, Bazil has a conventional equivalent in the English form Basil. In Romanian usage, Bazil has a conventional equivalent in the French form Basile.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bazil has relatives in 3 languages.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 31
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Vasiliequivalent
- Basilioequivalent
- Vasilijeequivalent
- BasileFrench
- Vasilyequivalent
- Wasylequivalent
- Vassiliosequivalent
- Vasilequivalent
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- Wassilequivalent
- Wasilequivalent
- Vasilisequivalent
- Vasileequivalent
- Bazilijequivalent
- Baziloequivalent
- ვასილequivalent
- Basilideequivalent
- Василequivalent
- Βασίλειοςequivalent
- Basílioequivalent
- Василийequivalent
- Васільequivalent
- Wassilyequivalent
- Basiliusequivalent
- Pasiequivalent
- Bazyliequivalent
- Васильequivalent
- Vasylequivalent
- Vassiliequivalent
- Basiliequivalent
- Vazulequivalent
- Βασίληςequivalent
People named Bazil
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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