Witalina
Latin at root, meaning "full of life". The name barely registers in Poland: around 29 women carry it, all of them, and most Poles will never meet one.
Witalina Pronunciation
Witalina is pronounced vee-tah-LEE-nah (/vitaˈlina/).
What Witalina means
Where Witalina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Witalina grows from Latin soil. Behind it sits vitalis, "of life," which itself comes from vita, life. The short meaning has stayed close to the root: full of life, vital. Not many Polish names keep their origin so plainly on the surface.
The same vitalis gave Polish the masculine Witalis, borne by an early martyr, Saint Vitalis, remembered in the church calendar. Witalina reads as the feminine branch of that line. The spelling shifts across borders too. In Ukrainian and Russian usage the form Vitalina appears, and a Pole may meet it on an official form at the urząd when a family has roots further east.
The connection to life is literal, not a later gloss. English vital, French vital, Italian vitale, all trace to the same Latin word. So the meaning attached to Witalina is the meaning the Romans already heard.
It stays rare in Poland. A teacher reading the class register meets one Witalina, maybe, across many years. The name-day follows Witalis. What a bearer keeps is the plainest possible sense: alive, full of life.
How many people are named Witalina
1 in 777374 women in Poland is named Witalina. 29 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7760 among female names.
Witalina's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.