Vitaliy
The Ukrainian and Russian form of a Latin name built on vita, "of life". It stays rare in Poland: only about 2,000 men carry it, nearly all of them grown, with almost no boys given it now.
Vitaliy Pronunciation
What Vitaliy means
Where Vitaliy comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vitaliy begins in Latin, with the word vita, meaning life. From it the Romans formed Vitalis, an adjective for a person full of life, and later a name carried by early Christian saints. When the name settled into Ukrainian and Russian speech, it kept that root intact. The short meaning stays close to the source: of life, vital, or in Polish żywotny and życiowy.
The name found a firm home in Ukraine. Vitaliy Klitschko, the heavyweight boxing champion and later mayor of Kyiv, made the spelling familiar far beyond the language. His brother fought as Wladimir, yet the Vitaliy form stayed distinctly Eastern in look and sound.
Picture a class register at a Polish school. The teacher reads down the list, and one Vitaliy answers. The name has no diminutive. It stands as given, without a shortened pet form attached.
That directness suits its meaning. A boy named Vitaliy carries a word for living itself, drawn straight from Latin vita.
How many people are named Vitaliy
1 in 10398 men in Poland is named Vitaliy. 2,053 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #700 among male names.
Vitaliy's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Vitaliy as a middle name
Vitaliy is a first name for 2,053 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5857th, between Vital (4) and Volkmar (4).
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#5855 Viraj4
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#5856 Vital4
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#5857 Vitaliy4
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#5858 Volkmar4
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#5859 Vuk4