Witali
A Latin name meaning "of life", worn here in its Russian and Ukrainian spelling. Fewer than a hundred men in Poland carry it, and no boys have taken it in recent years, so you'd remember meeting one.
Witali Pronunciation
Witali is pronounced vee-TAH-lee (/viˈtali/).
What Witali means
Where Witali comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Witali comes from the Latin `Vitalis`, an adjective built on `vita`, meaning life. The short sense in Polish stays close to that root: `życiowy`, `zdolny do życia`. In English we would say of life, or vital. The Latin cognate is easy to spot in words like vitality, and the connection was never lost.
The name travelled east and settled in Russian and Ukrainian usage, where Vitaliy and Vitaly are common. In Poland it kept its Latin skeleton and its endings. The masculine variant `Witalis` reads more formal on a document. The feminine `Witalia` shifts the same root across the gender line.
Read a school register in a Polish class and a `Witali` there stands out as uncommon rather than strange. The `-s` in `Witalis` marks the older, churchier form, the one you meet on a name-day calendar.
So the meaning is not decorative. It sits in the etymology itself. A boy named Witali carries a Latin adjective for being alive, the same one behind `Witalis` and `Witalia`.
How many people are named Witali
1 in 237180 men in Poland is named Witali. 90 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3710 among male names.
Witali as a middle name
Witali is a first name for 90 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 95/5 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5115th, between Wisdom (5) and Witaliusz (5).
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#5113 Winnicjusz5
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#5114 Wisdom5
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#5115 Witali5
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#5116 Witaliusz5
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#5117 Władek5