Witaliusz
From Latin, "full of life", the same root behind the variant Witalis. Fewer than thirty men in Poland carry it and no boy has been given it in years, so meeting one would stay with you.
Witaliusz Pronunciation
Witaliusz is pronounced vee-TAHL-yoosh (/viˈtaljuʂ/).
What Witaliusz means
Where Witaliusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Witaliusz comes from the Latin vitalis, formed on vita, life. The Romans used Vitalis as both a given name and a cognomen, and its sense was plain: full of life, belonging to life. Polish took the name in through the Church, where several early martyrs bore it.
The shorter form Witalis runs alongside it and shows up more often in Polish records. Both point back to the same root. Witalis of Milan, an early martyr, holds a place in the calendar, and his day falls on 28 April.
A boy called Witaliusz is rare in a Polish class register today. The name reads as old. It wears its meaning openly: żywotny, full of life. That sense was there in the Latin from the start, present already in vita.
How many people are named Witaliusz
1 in 736075 men in Poland is named Witaliusz. 29 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7761 among male names.
Witaliusz as a middle name
Witaliusz is a first name for 29 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, an 85/15 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5116th, between Witali (5) and Władek (5).
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#5114 Wisdom5
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#5115 Witali5
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#5116 Witaliusz5
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#5117 Władek5
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#5118 Władymir5