Vasiliy
Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy is a Russian masculine given name of Greek origin and corresponds to Basil.
- Russian
Meaning & Origin of Vasiliy
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy is a Russian masculine given name of Greek origin and corresponds to Basil.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Russian
The Story of Vasiliy
American parents first put Vasiliy on the record books as a baby boy name in 1994, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2020, when 9 Vasiliys were born — ranking #8,062 that year. About 38% of every Vasiliy on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Vasiliy last appeared in the published SSA data in 2020, with 9 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 76 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Vasiliy
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About the name Vasiliy
Vasiliy is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1994 and has accumulated 76 births in the dataset. Vasiliy's peak popularity came in 2020 when it ranked #8,062. Use the chart and map above to compare Vasiliy's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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