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Vasilije

#11,895 in 2025Boys' name

Of the king, kingly, royal, through Βασίλειος

Vasilije has been given to 42 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #11,895 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Vasilije, 2025

1 in 553,000

Vasilije over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vasilije: meaning, origin, and history

Of the king, kingly, royal, through Βασίλειος

Greek

What Vasilije means

Vasilije belongs to the name family reached through Vasilije → Βασίλειος. Its meaning is “of the king, kingly, royal”.

Origin, language, and formation

Vasilije is used in Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Greek.

Vasilije comes through Ancient Greek Βασίλειος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Basil, Bosiljko and Βασίλειος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Vasilije is pronounced /ʋǎsiːlije/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 42 boys were recorded with the name Vasilije between 2012 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2023; its best national rank was #10,729 in 2023.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Vasilije?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,895
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vasilije sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vasilije. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vasilijes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vasilije was born before 2022 — so the typical Vasilije is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
61.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
42
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 61.9% of all recorded uses (26).

Is Vasilije rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,052
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 2023 (7)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,729
2023

Spellings of Vasilije

Vasilije is not the most common spelling — Vasilios is, with 97.3% against Vasilije's 2.7%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Vasilije around the world

Where Vasilije ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2013–2025
    #3,211
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2005–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vasilije by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,895
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#10,729
2023
Peak year
2023
7 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
42
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Vasilije

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Vasilije

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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