Given name & surname
Wasyl
“of the king, kingly, royal”
Wasyl is a masculine given name. It is used in Polish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Wasyl goes back to a word meaning “of the king, kingly, royal.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Wasyl through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 64
- 64 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1956
- 8 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 8 in 1962. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 147 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.
Wasyl’s family of names
In Polish usage, Wasyl shares an earlier linguistic root with Bazyli. In Polish usage, Wasyl has a conventional equivalent in Basil. In Polish usage, Wasyl has a conventional equivalent in the English form Vasily.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Wasyl has relatives in 5 languages.
6 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 31
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Basilübersetzungen umleiten
- Vasiliequivalent
- Basilioequivalent
- Vasilijeequivalent
- BasileFrench
- Bazilequivalent
- Vassiliosequivalent
- Vasilequivalent
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- Wassilequivalent
- Wasilequivalent
- Vasilisequivalent
- Vasileequivalent
- VasilyEnglish
- Βασίλειοςequivalent
- Basílioequivalent
- Василийequivalent
- Wassilyequivalent
- Basiliusequivalent
- Pasiequivalent
- Vasylequivalent
- Vassiliequivalent
- Basiliequivalent
- Vazulequivalent
- Βασίληςequivalent
- Baziloequivalent
- Bazilijequivalent
- ვასილequivalent
- Basilideequivalent
- Василequivalent
- ВасильUkrainian
- ВасільBelarusian
People named Wasyl
- Wasyl CiapińskiBelarusian noble and writer1540
- Wasyl MedwitUkrainian Greek Catholic bishop (1949–2024)
- Wasyl Tyszkiewicz1492–1570
- Wasyl Czartoryski(1375-1416)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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