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Vasily

Boy · Slavic

Vasily is a boys' name of Slavic origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Vasily mean?

Slavic

A transliteration of the Bulgarian or Russian male given name Васи́лий (Vasílij).

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Vasily a girl's or a boy's name?

Vasily is a boys' name.

How popular is Vasily in the US?

No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2018, with 14 boys. It first appears in the records in 1978.

Half of all the boys named Vasily in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

1978Busiest: 14 in 20182023
Vasily in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20235#12,232
20220–
20215#12,141
20205#12,016
20197#9,750
201814#6,032
20179#8,136
20165#12,180
20156#10,638
20146#10,711
20138#8,784
20120–
20116#10,801
20100–
20090–
20085#12,546
20075#12,361
20066#10,655
20050–
20046#9,941
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19990–
19980–
19975#9,259
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19915#8,228
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19785#5,769

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