# Vasily (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/vasily/  
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 | Vasili, Vasilii |
| US babies named this | 113 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 113 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Bulgarian and Russian Васи́лий (Vasílij). Doublet of Basil.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 6 | 11,276 |
| 2006 | 6 | 11,976 |
| 2007 | 5 | 14,283 |
| 2008 | 5 | 14,488 |
| 2011 | 6 | 12,196 |
| 2013 | 8 | 9,606 |
| 2014 | 6 | 12,014 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11,997 |
| 2016 | 5 | 14,065 |
| 2017 | 9 | 8,784 |
| 2018 | 14 | 6,318 |
| 2019 | 7 | 10,739 |
| 2020 | 5 | 13,916 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13,936 |
| 2023 | 5 | 14,046 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Վասիլի
- Chinese: 瓦西里
- Greek: Βασίλειος, Βασίλης
- Portuguese: Vassili, Vasili
- Russian: Васи́лий
- Swedish: Vasilij

## People named Vasily

- Vasily Radlov, German-born Russian turkologist and ethnographer (1837-1918)
- Vasily Rudenkov, athletics competitor (1931–1982)
- Vasily Pavlovich Rochev, cross-country skier
- Vasily Shaptsiaboi, Belarusian biathlete
- Vasily Gorbunov, Erzyan literary critic, pedagogue, writer
- Vasily Kosyakov, architect (1862–1921)
- Vasily Berkov, director Admiralty-Shipyard of Saint Petersburg, Russia, Counter-Admiral, shipbuilder, lin
- Vasily Koptsov, Georgian military personnel
- Vasily Yao, Chinese Orthodox Church
- Vasily Sokolov, Footballer and manager (1912-1981)
- Wassily Kandinsky, avant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866-1944)
- Basil of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond

## 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.