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First name origin & meaning:

Czechoslovakian: Kingly

First name variations: Basil, Vasile, Vasilek, Vasili, Vasilios, Vasilis, Vasilos, Vasily, Vassily

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Greek: reduced form of Vasilakis or any of various other patronymic or other derivatives of the personal name Vasilis (see Basil), including Vasilidis, Vasiloglou, Vasilopoulos, etc.
  2. American reduced form of Serbian Vasiljević, from Greek Vasilis (see Basil).