Given name & surname
Vassilios
Vassilios is used as a given name and a surname.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Vassilios isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Vassilios through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 23
- 23 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1973
- 6 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 6 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 277 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.
Vassilios’s family of names
In English usage, Vassilios has a related form in Vasilios. In Greek usage, Vassilios as a surname is a transliteration of Βασσιλιός.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 35
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Basilequivalent
- Vasiliequivalent
- Basilioequivalent
- Vasilijeequivalent
- Bazilequivalent
- Basileequivalent
- Vasilequivalent
- Wassilequivalent
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- Wasilequivalent
- Vasilisequivalent
- Vasileequivalent
- Vasilyequivalent
- Wasylequivalent
- Lakisequivalent
- Basílioequivalent
- Vasosequivalent
- Василийequivalent
- Васільequivalent
- Wassilyequivalent
- Basiliusequivalent
- Pasiequivalent
- Βάσοςequivalent
- Bazyliequivalent
- Λάκηςequivalent
- Васильequivalent
- Vasylequivalent
- Vassiliequivalent
- Basiliequivalent
- Vazulequivalent
- Βασίληςequivalent
- Baziloequivalent
- Bazilijequivalent
- ვასილequivalent
- Basilideequivalent
- Василequivalent
People named Vassilios
- Basil of Caesarea4th-century Christian bishop, theologian, and saint (329–379)
- Basil IIByzantine Emperor from the Macedonian dynasty958–1025
- Basil IByzantine emperor from 867 to 886811–886
- Basil ZaharoffGreek-born arms dealer and industrialist (1849-1936)
- Basil of AncyraChristian theologian in Ancyra, Galatia290–363
- Vassilios SkourisGreek judgeborn 1948
- Basil LekapenosByzantine official925–985
- Vasilios KotroniasGreek chess playerborn 1964
- Basil II of ConstantinoplePatriarch of Constantinople1101
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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