Vasiliki
Fewer than 50 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one. From Greek, meaning royal or queenly.
Vasiliki Pronunciation
What Vasiliki means
Where Vasiliki comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vasiliki comes from Greek. It grows from "basileus," the word for king, and settles on a meaning of royal, queenly. The same root gave us the word basilica, the great hall of a ruler, and the herb basil, once called the royal plant. The masculine form is Vasilios, in Polish Bazyli.
For centuries Greek families gave the name in honor of Saint Basil the Great, a fourth-century bishop of Caesarea whose feast falls on the first of January. A girl named Vasiliki shares that day. Her imieniny would sit at the turn of the year, next to the fireworks.
In Poland the name reads as foreign, and a teacher checking a class register might pause over the spelling. The meaning travels well enough. Królewska, royal, is what the Greek says plainly, with no folk story required.
Vasiliki still means what basileus meant: royal.
How many people are named Vasiliki
1 in 460078 women in Poland is named Vasiliki. 49 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5443 among female names.
Vasiliki as a middle name
Vasiliki is a first name for 49 women in Poland and a middle name for another 12, an 80/20 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2220th, between Varvara (12) and Venessa (12).
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#2218 Valérie12
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#2219 Varvara12
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#2220 Vasiliki12
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#2221 Venessa12
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#2222 Vi12