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Vasily

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Vasiliy

Vasily has been given to 113 babies in the U.S. since 1978. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2018, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Vasily, 2023

1 in 663,000

Vasily over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vasily: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Vasiliy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vasily means

Vasily is a alternate transcription of Vasiliy.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Vasily is used in Russian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /vɐ.ˈsʲi.lʲɪj/ for Vasily.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Bulgarian and Russian Васи́лий (Vasílij). Doublet of Basil.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Vasily (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Vasily is used in English.

Vasily comes through bg,ru Васи́лий.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vasiliy and Basil.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 113 boys were recorded with the name Vasily between 1978 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2018; its best national rank was #6,314 in 2018.

How common is Vasily?

Vasily had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vasily 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vasily. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vasilys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vasily was born before 2014 — so the typical Vasily is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
113
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Vasily 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
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Not ranked then
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
0%
Peak was 2018 (14)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,314
2018

Spellings of Vasily

Vasily is not the most common spelling — Basil is, with 99.1% against Vasily's 0.85%.

  • Basil99.1%13,172
  • Vasily0.85%113

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.

Vasily around the world

Where Vasily 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.

  • South Australia
    1961–1997
    #543
    in 1997

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vasily by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,314
2018
Peak year
2018
14 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
113
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vasily

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

VasiliVashaunVashonVashawnVascoVasilVasileVasiliyVasilijeVasilisVashVassarVaseanVastineVasuVasishtaVasudevDailyVasanthVasiliosVashoneLilyVashionVasken

Sibling names for Vasily

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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