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Wasyl

Boys' name

Of the king, kingly, royal

Wasyl has been given to 64 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1956, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Wasyl, 1962

1 in 504,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wasyl: meaning, origin, and history

Of the king, kingly, royal

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wasyl means

Wasyl means “of the king, kingly, royal”, associated with basíleios.

Origin, language, and formation

Wasyl is used in Polish.

Wasyl comes through Old Church Slavonic Василии and Ancient Greek Βᾰσῐ́λειος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vasily and Bazyli.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Wasyl is pronounced /ˈva.sɘl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 64 boys were recorded with the name Wasyl between 1916 and 1962. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1956; its best national rank was #3,207 in 1956.

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 Wasyl?

Wasyl had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1962, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1962
1 in 504,000
8 of 4,035,213 births
Among boys only
1 in 259,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1962
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
349,626 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wasyl 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 1962 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 349,626 children born in 1962 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wasyl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wasyls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wasyl was born before 1955 — so the typical Wasyl is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
46.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
38
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Choose a decade

1950s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Wasyl 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1956 (8)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,207
1956

Spellings of Wasyl

Wasyl is not the most common spelling — Daryl is, with 76.4% against Wasyl's 0.08%.

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.

Wasyl around the world

Where Wasyl 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
    1949–1949
    #1,155
    in 1949
  • South Australia
    1949–1955
    #392
    in 1955

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.

Wasyl 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
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Best rank ever
#3,207
1956
Peak year
1956
8 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1962
All-time count
64
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Wasyl

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

WasifWasilWassimWasimWascoWasayWaseemWassilWasiWashWasseemWassillieSylWashington

Sibling names for Wasyl

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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