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Vasilisa

#6,811 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Basil

Vasilisa has been given to 275 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #6,811 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Vasilisa, 2025

1 in 195,000

Vasilisa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vasilisa: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Basil

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vasilisa means

Vasilisa is a feminine form of Basil.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Vasilisa → Basil → Basilius → Βασίλειος. The family’s meaning is “of the king, kingly, royal”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements basíleios.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Basil.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 275 girls were recorded with the name Vasilisa between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2016; its best national rank was #4,626 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,196 in 2020 to #6,811 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,435 in 2015 to #6,811 in 2025.

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 Vasilisa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,811
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vasilisa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vasilisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vasilisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vasilisa was born before 2016 — so the typical Vasilisa is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
63.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
275
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Choose a decade

2010s — 63.3% of all recorded uses (174).

Is Vasilisa 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
+3,397
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,385
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−376
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.8%
Peak was 2016 (31)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,626
2016

Spellings of Vasilisa

Vasilisa is not the most common spelling — Vasiliki is, with 81.7% against Vasilisa's 18.3%.

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.

Where Vasilisa is used

Across 1910–2025, Vasilisa was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 436,779 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Vasilisa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vasilisa around the world

Where Vasilisa 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.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2013
    #816
    in 2013
  • France
    2016–2023
    #4,296
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2018–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vasilisa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,811
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,385
Best rank ever
#4,626
2016
Peak year
2016
31 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
275
Count in 2025
17

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

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Sibling names for Vasilisa

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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