Vasile
From the Greek for "king, royal". About 1,400 men in Poland carry it and no boys got it last year: most Poles have never met one.
Vasile Pronunciation
What Vasile means
Where Vasile comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vasile comes from Greek. Behind it stands basileus, the word for a king, and its adjective basileios, meaning royal. The short meaning follows the root without a detour: king, królewski. Saint Basil the Great, bishop of Caesarea in the fourth century, bore the Greek Basileios, and his standing in the early Church carried the name across the Orthodox and eastern Christian world.
In Polish the same root surfaces as Bazyli, a cognate that shares Vasile's parentage down to the meaning. Both go back to that single Greek word for a ruler. Where Vasile settled most firmly was among Romanian speakers, and it stays one of the steadier men's names there.
Picture a class register in a Polish school. A boy named Vasile is read from the list, his name a step apart from the Bazyli two rows down, both royal at the root. The sense stays plain: king.
How many people are named Vasile
1 in 15161 men in Poland is named Vasile. 1,408 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #819 among male names.
Vasile as a middle name
Vasile is a first name for 1,408 men in Poland and a middle name for another 38, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1315th, between Reza (38) and Anatoliusz (37).
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#1313 Rajendra38
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#1314 Reza38
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#1315 Vasile38
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#1316 Anatoliusz37
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#1317 Aurelian37