Vital
From the Latin for "full of life". Only around 370 men in Poland carry it and no boy was given it last year, so most Poles have never met one.
Vital Pronunciation
What Vital means
Where Vital comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Vital comes from the Latin vitalis, an adjective formed on vita, the word for life. Its sense stays close to that root: of life, full of life. The same origin feeds vital, vitamin, and revitalize, so a reader meets the name already half-knowing it.
Christianity moved the form across Europe through its saints. Vitalis of Milan, an early martyr venerated in the Church, set the name in liturgical calendars centuries before it appeared on Polish forms at the urząd. The Latin adjective became a Christian given name without losing its plain meaning.
In Poland it stays rare. Read on a school register, Vital would stand out among the Piotrs and Jans. The name still says what vitalis said, of life and full of life, życiowy and zdolny do życia.
How many people are named Vital
1 in 57537 men in Poland is named Vital. 371 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1548 among male names.
Vital as a middle name
Vital is a first name for 371 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 99/1 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5856th, between Viraj (4) and Vitaliy (4).
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#5854 Ville4
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#5855 Viraj4
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#5856 Vital4
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#5857 Vitaliy4
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#5858 Volkmar4