Vitali
surname · Latin script
Meaning: life = haim
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bitali/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vitali is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common given name.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 100as Віталій(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 190as Виталий
- BYBelarus≈1 in 216as Виталий
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vitali itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #108 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- 1 in 423 (inferred from the name graph)
≈740,000 named Виталий, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Виталий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus, Віталій in UA Ukraine, Vitalii in PL Poland and Vitalij in MD Moldova.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
life = haim
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vitali counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #47 | ≈740,000 est. | ≈1 in 190 | #22 | Виталий | 209 |
| UA Ukraine | #31 | ≈440,000 est. | ≈1 in 100 | listed | Віталій | 146 |
| BY Belarus | #36 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 216 | 47 | Виталий | 64 |
| PL Poland | #650 | 41,849as Vitalii | 1 in 915 | 42K | Vitalii | 67 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #40 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 515 | 8.8K | Виталий | 58 |
| MD Moldova | #110 | 7,950 | 1 in 423 | 8K | Vitalij | 32 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Vitali is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do lat. Vitalis, de vitalis; nome ligado à vida e à vitalidade
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Vitale
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of vītālis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Giovanni Battista Vitalib. 1632ITItalian composer
- Tomaso Antonio Vitalib. 1663ITItalian composer and violinist
- Giuseppe Vitalib. 1875ITItalian mathematician (1875-1932)
- Massimo Vitalib. 1944ITItalian photojournalist (born 1944)
- Leon Vitalib. 1948GBEnglish actor (1948–2022)
- Keith Vitalib. 1952USAmerican martial artist, actor and writer
- Élisabeth Vitalib. 1953FRFrench actress
- Ελένη Βιτάληb. 1954GRnot in their usual nameGreek singer and composer
- Vera Vitalib. 1981SESwedish actress and playwright
- Luca Vitalib. 1986ITItalian basketball player (born 1986)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 72 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 8K | #125 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 5.5K | #222 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5.3K | #223 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 2 | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vitali mean, and where does it come from?
- life = haim Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Vitali?
- A machine transcription gives /bitali/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Vitali?
- In the etymology graph, Vidal, Vitale and Vital are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Vitali have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 744 thousand people named Виталий in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Vitali most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vitali is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 423 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vitali?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 7,950 people named Vitali, about 1 in 423 residents.
- How common is Vitali compared with other names?
- In Russia, Vitali is the 47th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vitaliThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vitali” — the 47th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.