Vasilina
Greek at root, carrying the sense of "royal" or "kingly". It stays rare in Poland: around 100 women use it, and newborns almost never get it now.
Vasilina Pronunciation
What Vasilina means
Where Vasilina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vasilina begins in Greek, in basileus, the word for a king. From the same root Greek built basilikos, meaning royal, and that sense of rank passed into the name. Carried into Russian, Vasilina became a woman's name glossed as royal, kingly.
The meaning works like a title. It points to standing rather than looks. The old Greek word for a sovereign sits inside it, and every bearer holds that claim without having to earn it.
The root is regal.
On a Polish class register, Vasilina lands beside names drawn from saints and plants, and its Greek pedigree reads as something apart. Whoever answers to it answers to basileus, the Greek king, and to the gloss that trails behind it: royal.
How many people are named Vasilina
1 in 208739 women in Poland is named Vasilina. 108 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3284 among female names.
Vasilina's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.