Vitalij
Only around 126 men in Poland carry it, rare enough that most people here have never met one. The root is Latin, carrying the sense "of life".
Vitalij Pronunciation
What Vitalij means
Where Vitalij comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vitalij grows from the Latin word vitalis, meaning "of life." Behind it stands vita, the Latin word for life. Roman families handed the name Vitalis to their sons, and early Christians took it up as well. Saint Vitalis of Milan, an early martyr, fixed the name in the church calendar and kept it in use.
The form Vitalij belongs mostly to Russian and Ukrainian speakers, where it settled as an ordinary given name. Polish writes it a little differently. The variant Witalij follows Polish spelling habits, trading the j-heavy Slavic look for something a reader here parses at once.
On a Polish urząd form, Witalij still reads as a guest from the east, a name a clerk might pause over before writing it down. The meaning underneath has not moved far. In Polish it comes out as żywy, witalny, tied to life the same way vita is.
How many people are named Vitalij
1 in 169414 men in Poland is named Vitalij. 126 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2985 among male names.
Vitalij as a middle name
Vitalij is a first name for 126 men in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 94/6 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3710th, between Vitalii (8) and Vũ (8).
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#3708 Villamor8
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#3709 Vitalii8
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#3710 Vitalij8
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#3711 Vũ8
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#3712 Waldy8