Vasil Family History

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, and Vasilopoulos. Rusyn (from Slovakia) and Slovak (mainly Vasiľ): from a local vernacular form of Greek Basileios ‘royal’ (see Basil).

Compare Wasil, an Americanized form of Croatian Vasilj, a cognate of those mentioned 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).