Wasiliki
Just 38 women in Poland carry it, and no newborn girls have been given it in recent years: most Poles will never meet one. It comes from Greek, the name Vasiliki, meaning "royal".
Wasiliki Pronunciation
Wasiliki is pronounced vah-shee-LEE-kee (/vaɕiˈliki/).
What Wasiliki means
Where Wasiliki comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wasiliki is the Polish spelling of the Greek Vasiliki, written Βασιλική. It grows from basileus, the Greek word for king, and from the adjective basilikos, meaning royal. The short meaning sits close to the source: royal, in Polish królewska.
The name is the feminine of Vasilios, the Greek form of Basil. That root reached far. The herb basil carries it too, once known in Greek as the royal plant. A girl named Wasiliki stands in a long Greek line, though the name is rare on a Polish class register.
Picture the name read out at an urząd, the clerk pausing at the double vowel. It looks foreign on a Polish form, and it is. The meaning stays plain across the border. Wasiliki means royal, and behind it stands basileus, the king.
How many people are named Wasiliki
1 in 593259 women in Poland is named Wasiliki. 38 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6407 among female names.
Wasiliki as a middle name
Wasiliki is a first name for 38 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, an 86/14 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3452nd, between Waltruda (6) and Winona (6).
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#3450 Waltrand6
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#3451 Waltruda6
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#3452 Wasiliki6
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#3453 Winona6
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#3454 Winter6