Wasylina
Fewer than a dozen women in Poland carry it, just ten, so meeting one is close to impossible. It comes from the Ukrainian name Wasyl and holds the sense "royal".
Wasylina Pronunciation
Wasylina is pronounced vah-sih-LEE-nah (/vasɨˈlina/).
What Wasylina means
Where Wasylina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wasylina grows out of Wasyl, the Ukrainian and Polish form of the name Basil. Wasyl reaches back to the Greek basileus, a word for king, and that is where the sense of royal enters the story. The feminine Wasylina stands beside the masculine Wasyl. Its Polish gloss is królewska, kingly.
The royal meaning came by inheritance, through Basil rather than from Slavic soil. Saint Basil the Great gave the name its early weight, and Ukrainian villages kept Wasyl alive for centuries. Wasylina followed as the woman's form, less common, still legible on any parish list.
A teacher reading a class register in a Polish school meets Wasylina and hears the Ukrainian border in it. The name marks a family with roots east of the San. Say Wasyl and Wasylina together, and the pair points back to one Greek word for a king.
How many people are named Wasylina
1 in 2254383 women in Poland is named Wasylina. 10 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #16753 among female names.