Entry № 11161 · Russian origin

Vasilisa Vasilisa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ vah-see-LEE-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Russian
Meaning
"Queen (Russian fairy-tale heroine)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Russian)

A name that means "queen (russian fairy-tale heroine)".

Vasilisa (Василиса) is the Russian feminine of Vasilios — from the Greek basilissa, meaning "queen." Vasilisa the Beautiful (Vasilisa Prekrasnaya) is the heroine of the most famous Russian fairy tale, who survives Baba Yaga's tests with the help of her magical doll.

Vasilisa is widely used in Russia.

Queen. The Russian fairy-tale heroine.

The name in its native script.

Василиса
Transliteration
Vasilisa
Pronunciation
/ ˌvæ.sɪˈliː.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vasilisa stands.

Vasilisa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Vasilisas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Vasilisa the Beautiful
Heroine of Russian fairy tales.
Russian folklore

Names connected to Vasilisa.

The number behind Vasilisa.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vasilisa reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.