Wasil
Just 31 men in Poland carry it, and the birth records show none given since at least 2000: most Poles will never meet a Wasil. A Slavic name meaning "royal, kingly".
Wasil Pronunciation
Wasil is pronounced VAH-sheel (/ˈvaɕil/).
What Wasil means
Where Wasil comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wasil belongs to the Eastern Slavic family of names built on the Greek basileus, "king." The sense "royal, kingly" is no later gloss. It sits in the root. Across Poland's eastern borderlands the same name took the form Wasyl, closer to Ukrainian and Belarusian speech.
The Arabic association gives Wasil a second home. Wasil is a recorded Arabic name too. Wasil ibn Ata, an eighth-century theologian in Basra, carried it. The two lines meet in sound alone and share no root.
Short and blunt, the meaning holds. Royal, kingly. A boy named Wasil today wears a word that once marked the man on the throne, ordinary now in the school class register. The variant Wasyl keeps the older sound. Both point back to one idea: królewski.
How many people are named Wasil
1 in 688587 men in Poland is named Wasil. 31 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7405 among male names.