Vitaly
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/vʲɪˈtalʲɪj/(recorded in a dictionary) Russian · from Wiktionary · read from виталий
Vitaly is a male 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. Vitaly is also written Виталий in Cyrillic, Վիտալի in Armenian and ვითალი in Georgian.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 300Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 98as Віталій
- BYBelarus≈1 in 140as 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 Vitaly itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. 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)
- Record sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 297K (inferred from the name graph)
≈800,000 named Виталий, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Vitaly in other scripts: Cyrillic, Latin, Armenian and 4 more
(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.
How to pronounce Vitaly
- Russian:/vʲɪˈtalʲɪj/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vitaly 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 | ≈800,000 est. | ≈1 in 180 | register #22 | Виталий | 209 |
| UA Ukraine | #31 | ≈390,000 est. | ≈1 in 98 | listed | Віталій | 146 |
| BY Belarus | #36 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 137 | 47 | Виталий | 64 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #40 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 477 | 8.8K | Виталий | 58 |
| PL Poland | #650 | 41,849as Vitalii | 1 in 915 | 42K | Vitalii | 67 |
| MD Moldova | #110 | 7,950as Vitali | 1 in 423 | 8K | Vitalij | 32 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 297K | 1 | Vitaly | 52 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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 Ginzburgb. 1916RURussian physicist (1916–2009)
- Vitaly Mutkob. 1958RURussian politician
- Vitālijs Astafjevsb. 1971LVnot in their usual nameLatvian footballer (born 1971)
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)37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Vitaly?
- In the etymology graph, Vitaliy, Vitalis and Vitālijs are forms of the same name in other languages; Vitya is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Vitaly?
- In Russian /vʲɪˈtalʲɪj/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Vitaly a male or female name?
- Vitaly is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Estonia (Statistics Estonia), Spain (INE) and Finland (DVV), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Vitaly?
- Mondonomo estimates about 799 thousand people named Виталий in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Vitaly?
- In Poland, the national register counted 41,849 people named Vitalii in 2026, about 1 in 915 residents.
- How common is Vitaly compared with other names?
- In Russia, Vitaly is the 47th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vitalyThe 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, “Vitaly” — the 47th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.