Vytautas
A Lithuanian name meaning "leading the people". In Poland it barely registers: about 65 men carry it, all male, and most Poles will never meet one.
Vytautas Pronunciation
What Vytautas means
Where Vytautas comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vytautas comes from Lithuanian. The name joins two Baltic roots, vyti, meaning to lead or drive onward, and tauta, meaning the people or nation. Put together they yield the short meaning that travels with it: leading the people.
The name belongs to one of the great figures of this region. Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania, died in 1430. He shared the field at Grunwald in 1410 with the Polish king Jagiełło, his cousin. For Lithuanians the name reads as a claim on their whole history. In Poland it is known as Witold, a cognate that kept a different shape while Vytautas held the Lithuanian spelling.
Picture a class register in a Polish school. Vytautas sits among the Piotrs and Krzysztofs as plainly foreign. The teacher reads it once. The Lithuanian ending -as marks it at a glance, and the meaning underneath holds: leading the people.
How many people are named Vytautas
1 in 328403 men in Poland is named Vytautas. 65 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4550 among male names.
Vytautas as a middle name
Vytautas is a first name for 65 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 9020th, between Vural (2) and Víctor (2).
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#9018 Viêt2
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#9019 Vural2
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#9020 Vytautas2
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#9021 Víctor2
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#9022 Vít2