# Vasil (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/vasil/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 79 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 79 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 70, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 5 | 4,768 |
| 1919 | 5 | 4,767 |
| 1920 | 7 | 3,794 |
| 1921 | 7 | 3,847 |
| 1922 | 5 | 4,919 |
| 1923 | 8 | 3,453 |
| 1924 | 8 | 3,491 |
| 1925 | 12 | 2,580 |
| 1927 | 7 | 3,759 |
| 1929 | 5 | 4,502 |
| 2005 | 5 | 13,253 |
| 2011 | 5 | 14,220 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2010 | 4 | 3,865 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,483 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2,693 |
| 2019 | 5 | 3,411 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2,960 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2023 | 9 | 2,325 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,254 |

## People named Vasil

- Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (1837–1873)
- Vasil Bykaŭ, Belarusian writer (1924–2003)
- Vasil Kolarov, Bulgarian politician (1877—1950)
- Vasil Mzhavanadze, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Georgian SSR (1902-1988)
- Vasil Biľak, Czechoslovak member of Slovak National Council, member of Czechoslovak parliament, member 
- Vasil Yakusha, Belarusian rower (1958-2020)
- Vasil Metodiev, Bulgarian footballer (1935-2019)
- Vasil Kutinchev, Bulgarian general (1859-1941)
- Vasil Bozhikov, Bulgarian association football player
- Vasil Spasov, Bulgarian chess grandmaster
- Vasil Aprilov, Bulgarian educator (1789—1847)
- Vasil Kanchov, Bulgarian historian (1862-1902)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.