Vitaliya
A Latin name at root, from a word for life: "full of life". Barely known in Poland, with about 99 women carrying it and no newborns given it in years, so most Poles have never met one.
Vitaliya Pronunciation
What Vitaliya means
Where Vitaliya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vitaliya begins in Latin, in the word vita, meaning life. The Roman name Vitalis grew from it and meant "of life." Early Christians carried Vitalis as a martyr's name, among them Saint Vitalis of Milan. From that root came the masculine Vitaliy, familiar across Russia and Ukraine, and Vitaliya answers it as the feminine form.
The meaning stays close to the soil it grew in. Of life, full of life. English keeps the same Latin thread in words like vital and vitality, so the sense is easy to hear.
In a Polish class register, Vitaliya sits among names of older Slavic making, and its Latin origin sets it a little apart. The name promises life, and the promise is right there in vita.
How many people are named Vitaliya
1 in 227715 women in Poland is named Vitaliya. 99 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3486 among female names.