Vasil
Slavic in origin, with the sense of "king" or "royal". Fewer than 600 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one, and every bearer is male.
Vasil Pronunciation
What Vasil means
Where Vasil comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vasil grew up among the Slavs, and it wears its meaning openly: king, royal. The word was made for people who sit above others. A child given it holds a title before holding anything else.
In Polish the sense comes through as królewski, cesarski, the vocabulary of crowns and of empires. Vasil never softens that reach. The name keeps its royal claim whether it belongs to a farmer's son or a bishop.
Much of the name's life runs through Saint Basil the Great, the fourth-century bishop whose feast the Eastern churches mark on the first of January. Orthodox families across the Slavic world named boys for him, and so the royal word settled into ordinary households. Read a Polish class register and Vasil stands out as a border name, one carried east of the Bug. Its meaning stays fixed: king, royal.
How many people are named Vasil
1 in 35936 men in Poland is named Vasil. 594 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1224 among male names.
Vasil's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Where Vasil is most popular
Vasil is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
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Masovian2 boys born+510%
Vasil as a middle name
Vasil is a first name for 594 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 99/1 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5087th, between Varun (5) and Veer (5).
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#5085 Valter5
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#5086 Varun5
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#5087 Vasil5
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#5088 Veer5
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#5089 Vegard5