Vasileios
Βασίλειος
Basil, in English
Saint Basil the Great — the fourth-century bishop of Caesarea, kept on New Year's Day.
AI-generated · contemporary interpretation · onomasti original, 2026
Origin
The story of Vasileios
Vasileios keeps 1 January — the feast of Saint Basil the Great, one of the great bishops of the fourth-century Church.
The name is openly regal. Βασίλειος is built on βασιλεύς (basileús), the Greek word for “king” — so the name simply means “royal, kingly.”
“Royal, kingly — from the Greek word for king.”
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Βασίλειος
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In English letters: Vasileios · Basil · Vasilis · Bill
Βασίλειος
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Pass it on. Tell them whose name they carry — and that this day is theirs to keep.
Χρόνια Πολλά
Send Vasileios a Χρόνια Πολλά
A name day matters more than a birthday in a Greek family — and everyone sends Χρόνια Πολλά. Here is a card to send, and the correct Greek to write, whether or not you can type it yourself.
Warm — someone close
Formal — an elder, or with respect
The card and the wishes are in Greek — the way you would actually send them. We never machine-translate; these are fixed, correct greetings, and the name is woven in only where Greek grammar lets us do it without guessing.
Variations
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