Vasil as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Vasil

What is the meaning of the name Vasil ?

The baby name Vasil is a boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced vuh-SEEL.

Vasil is Bulgarian, Greek, Macedonian, Slavic in Origin.

Vasil is a Bulgarian, Macedonian, and broader Slavic form of Greek Basileios, written Βασίλειος in antiquity. The Greek name is built on basileus, king or sovereign, with the adjectival suffix -eios, so its literal sense is royal, kingly. Slavic languages adapted the initial Greek b to v in several regional forms, producing Vasil and related spellings.

In Christian naming, the form belongs to the large family associated with Saint Basil the Great, the fourth-century bishop of Caesarea and one of the Cappadocian Fathers. Vasil is especially familiar in Bulgaria and North Macedonia, with bearers such as Bulgarian revolutionary Vasil Levski. Cognates include English Basil, Greek Vasileios or Vasilis, Romanian Vasile, Ukrainian Vasyl, Russian Vasily, Polish Wasyl, and Italian or Spanish Basilio. In the United States it has remained rare outside immigrant and heritage use.