Witalis
From the Latin for "of life, full of vitality". Only a few hundred Polish men carry it, so most people here will never meet one: a name that stays rare and is slipping further out of use.
Witalis Pronunciation
Witalis is pronounced vee-TAH-lees (/viˈtalis/).
What Witalis means
Where Witalis comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Witalis grew from Latin, from the adjective vitalis, meaning "of life, vital." Its root is vita, the ordinary Latin word for life, and the same root sits inside English "vital" and "vitality." Roman families used Vitalis as a given name long before it entered church calendars.
Early Christianity gave the name its footing. Vitalis of Milan, an early martyr, is remembered on Polish name-day calendars, so a boy called Witalis has an imieniny to mark. The name kept a small, steady presence in Poland rather than a fashionable one.
The forms shift by a single vowel. A brother might be entered in a class register as Witali, the shorter variant, while the feminine Witalia turns the same root toward a daughter. The meaning stays close to the root. Whatever the ending, the name still says "of life, vital," żywotny in Polish.
When Witalis celebrates name day
Witalis appears 9 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 14 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
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in 157 days14 FebruarySunday in 2027
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in 230 days28 AprilWednesday in 2027
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in 263 days31 MayMonday in 2027
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in 303 days10 JulySaturday in 2027
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in 356 days1 SeptemberWednesday in 2027
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in 12 days22 SeptemberTuesday in 2026
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in 40 days20 OctoberTuesday in 2026
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in 54 days3 NovemberTuesday in 2026
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in 55 days4 NovemberWednesday in 2026
How many people are named Witalis
1 in 63342 men in Poland is named Witalis. 337 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1642 among male names.
Witalis's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Witalis as a middle name
Witalis is a first name for 337 men in Poland and a middle name for another 183, a 65/35 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 503rd, between Luke (183) and Eustachy (182).
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#501 Antoine184
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#502 Luke183
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#503 Witalis183
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#504 Eustachy182
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#505 Giovanni181