Given name & surname
Vasilis
“one who is kingly; born to royalty”
Vasilis is used as a given name and a surname. One Greek interpretation is “one who is kingly; born to royalty.”
Original GreekΒασιλής
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “one who is kingly; born to royalty.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Vasilis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 186
- 186 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 301 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Vasilis’s family of names
Vasilis has a related form in Vasyl. Vasilis has a related form in Vasilios. Vasilis has a related form in Vasile.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 23
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 29
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Βασίληςsource · Greek
- Basilequivalent
- Basilioequivalent
- Bazilequivalent
- Basileequivalent
- Wasylequivalent
- Vassiliosequivalent
- Wassilequivalent
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- Wasilequivalent
- Βάσοςequivalent
- Bazyliequivalent
- Pasiequivalent
- Васильequivalent
- Λάκηςequivalent
- Vassiliequivalent
- Basiliequivalent
- Vazulequivalent
- Bazilijequivalent
- Baziloequivalent
- ვასილequivalent
- Basilideequivalent
- Василequivalent
- Lakisequivalent
- Βασίλειοςequivalent
- Basílioequivalent
- Василийequivalent
- Васільequivalent
- Wassilyequivalent
- Basiliusequivalent
People named Vasilis
- Vasilis TorosidisGreek international footballer (born 1985)
- Vassilis SpanoulisGreek basketball player (born 1982)
- Vasilios TsiartasGreek footballerborn 1972
- Vasilios LakisGreek footballerborn 1976
- Vassilis AlexakisGreek-French writer1943–2021
- Vasilis BarkasGreek association football playerborn 1994
- Vasilis HatzipanagisGreek former footballer born in the Soviet Unionborn 1954
- Vassilis VassilikosGreek writer and diplomat (1933-2023)
- Vasilis KarrasGreek singer (1953–2023)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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