Vitalij
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vajtəlajʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vitalij is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common given name.
- CZCzechia≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 100as Віталій
- RURussia≈1 in 190as 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 Vitalij 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 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈740,000 named Виталий, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia, est.
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 Vitaliy in CZ Czechia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vitalij 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 | 7,950as Vitali | 1 in 423 | 8K | Vitalij | 32 |
| CZ Czechia | #507 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 166 | Vitaliy | 41 |
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; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vitaly Biankib. 1894RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer (1894–1959)
- Vitaly Ginzburgb. 1916RUnot in their usual nameRussian physicist (1916–2009)
- Vitaly Mutkob. 1958RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician
- Vitali Klitschkob. 1971UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian boxer and politician (1971-)
- Vitālijs Astafjevsb. 1971LVnot in their usual nameLatvian footballer (born 1971)
- Vitaly Valentinovich Milonovb. 1974RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician
- Vitaly Petrovb. 1984RUnot in their usual nameRussian racing driver
- Vitalik Buterinb. 1994RUnot in their usual nameRussian-Canadian computer scientist
- Vitalii Skakunb. 1996UAUkrainian military figure (1996-2022)
- Vitaliy Mykolenkob. 1999UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian association football player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 166 | #832 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 166 | #789 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 134 | #1,702 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 126 | #1,676 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 1 | #7,738 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Vitalij?
- A machine transcription gives /vajtəlajʒ/ (IPA) for Russian.
- Is Vitalij a male or female name?
- Vitalij is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Vitalij have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 744 thousand people named Виталий in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Vitalij?
- In Poland, the national register counted 41,849 people named Vitalii in 2026, about 1 in 915 residents.
- How common is Vitalij compared with other names?
- In Russia, Vitalij is the 47th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vitalij?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vitalijThe 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, “Vitalij” — the 47th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.