Wasylis
Just 26 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one. From Greek, the name means "royal" or "kingly", and sits close to the plainer forms Wasyl and Wasyli.
Wasylis Pronunciation
Wasylis is pronounced vah-SIH-lees (/vaˈsɨlis/).
What Wasylis means
Where Wasylis comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wasylis traces back to a single Greek word, basileus, meaning king. That root moved in two directions, west into Basil and east into the Slavic Wasyl. The variants Wasyl and Wasyli sit right beside it, and the meaning holds across all of them, królewski in Polish, royal or kingly in English.
The eastern path runs through the Orthodox church. Basil the Great, Bazyli in Polish, served as bishop of Caesarea in the fourth century and set the Greek Basileios firmly among the saints of the calendar. His feast falls on the first of January, the day he died in 379. The kingly sense was no metaphor. The word named an actual ruler before it ever named a child.
Read from a class register, Wasylis marks its bearer as foreign to the standard Polish roll, closer to Wasyl than to Bazyli. The name keeps its Greek bone, basileus, the king.
How many people are named Wasylis
1 in 821007 men in Poland is named Wasylis. 26 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8423 among male names.
Wasylis as a middle name
Wasylis is a first name for 26 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5867th, between Wassim (4) and Wenicjusz (4).
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#5865 Wartan4
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#5866 Wassim4
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#5867 Wasylis4
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#5868 Wenicjusz4
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#5869 Wiet4