Wasilis
A Greek name from the word for "royal" or "kingly", the same root as Vasilis. In Poland it belongs to a few dozen men and no one else: no boy has been given it this century, and most Poles have never met one.
Wasilis Pronunciation
Wasilis is pronounced vah-SHEE-lees (/vaˈɕilis/).
What Wasilis means
Where Wasilis comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wasilis comes from Greek. Behind it sits basileus, the old word for a king, and that root hands the name its Polish meaning, królewski. In English the short of it is royal, kingly.
Basileus once named the rulers of the Greek city-states, and later the emperors who governed from Constantinople. A name built from that word does not hand anyone a crown. It borrows the vocabulary of one. So the sense of "royal" is a claim of language, of where the sound began, rather than of any throne a bearer ever sat on.
The root is old. Saint Basil the Great, a bishop in the fourth century, carried the same element in his name, and in the Eastern calendar his feast falls on the first of January. Greek men called Vasilis keep their name-day on that date. Wasilis is the form a Polish register would record, the Greek word for king spelled out in Polish letters.
How many people are named Wasilis
1 in 374495 men in Poland is named Wasilis. 57 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4934 among male names.
Wasilis as a middle name
Wasilis is a first name for 57 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, an 89/11 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4081st, between Wandalin (7) and Wellington (7).
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#4079 Walther7
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#4080 Wandalin7
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#4081 Wasilis7
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#4082 Wellington7
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#4083 Wicenty7