Vitaliia
From the Latin for "full of life". In Poland it's a Ukrainian name and a rare one: only around 1,100 women carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Vitaliia Pronunciation
What Vitaliia means
Where Vitaliia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vitaliia traces back to the Latin vitalis, meaning of life, which itself grows from vita, the word for life. English keeps the same root in vital and vitality. The short meaning stays close to the origin: full of life, or in Polish życiowa, zdolna do życia.
The name carries a masculine partner, Witalis, and the variant Witalia. Roman families used Vitalis as a given name long before it reached Slavic ground, and an early Christian martyr, Saint Vitalis of Milan, fixed it in the calendar, where Witalis still keeps a name-day on 28 April. Read the form Vitaliia today and you meet its Ukrainian life, the feminine of the common Vitalii.
The meaning asks little interpretation. The Latin vita sits inside the name still, one short syllable that means life.
How many people are named Vitaliia
1 in 19723 women in Poland is named Vitaliia. 1,143 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #902 among female names.