Vasil Family History
Vasil Name Meaning
American shortened form of Greek Vasilakis or of any other surname derived from the personal name Vasilis (from classical Greek Basileios ‘royal’; see Basil ) including Vasiliadis Vasiloglou Vasilopoulos . Rusyn (from Slovakia) and Slovak (mainly Vasiľ): from a local vernacular form of Greek Basileios ‘royal’ (see Basil ). Compare Wasil Americanized form of Croatian Vasilj a cognate of 2 above originating mainly from Herzegovina. American shortened form of Serbian Vasiljević Macedonian Vasilevski or any other Slavic patronymic from local equivalents (Serbian Vasilije and Vasilj Macedonian Vasil etc.) of the Greek personal name Basileios ‘royal’ (see Basil ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
