Vitor
Just 67 men in Poland carry it, and no boys have taken it up in recent years. A Latin name at root, meaning "conqueror".
Vitor Pronunciation
What Vitor means
Where Vitor comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vitor comes straight from Latin. Behind it stands the word victor, meaning conqueror, built on the verb vincere, to overcome. The Romans gave the title Victor to their generals and later to their saints, and Portuguese speakers reshaped that Roman name into Vitor.
The meaning has held its shape. A Vitor is, by the plain sense of the root, one who prevails. That same verb vincere seeded English words such as invincible and convince, so the idea of winning sits close under the name. Polish readers meet the older ancestor in Wiktor, a cognate that keeps the hard c.
Picture the name on a class register at a Polish school. Next to it a Wiktor, and both roads run back to vincere. Conqueror is the sense that stays.
How many people are named Vitor
1 in 318600 men in Poland is named Vitor. 67 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4456 among male names.
Vitor as a middle name
Vitor is a first name for 67 men in Poland and a middle name for another 19, a 78/22 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2096th, between Tùng (19) and Wiktoryn (19).
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#2094 Tochukwu19
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#2095 Tùng19
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#2096 Vitor19
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#2097 Wiktoryn19
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#2098 Wolfram19