Witold
given name · Latin script
Meaning: männl. Vom. polnischer Herkunft, der auf litauisch Vytautas (< lit (DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈvi.tɔlt/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Witold is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 54,261 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026. Witold is also written Витольд in Cyrillic.
- PLPoland1 in 706(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 25K
- SESweden1 in 42K
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 Witold 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- 1 in 706 (inferred from the name graph)
54,261 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Witold in other scripts: Cyrillic and Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vitold in PL Poland, US United States, LT Lithuania, Витольд in RU Russia, BY Belarus and Вітольд in UA Ukraine.
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 Witold
- Polish:/ˈvi.tɔlt/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)männl. Vom. polnischer Herkunft, der auf litauisch Vytautas (< lit. vyd- zu [isjvysti »sehen« + lit. tauta »Nation«), den Namen des ersten christlichen Großfürsten von
Cited for this meaning 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Witold 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 54,261 | 1 in 706 | 55K | VitOld | 8 |
| US United States | — | 774 | 1 in 430K | 771 | VitOld | 31 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 314K | register #1,335 | Витольд | 105 |
| SE Sweden | — | 245 | 1 in 42K | 245 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Вітольд | 11 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | VitOld | 2 |
| BY Belarus | #424 | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 2 | Витольд | 13 |
| IS Iceland | — | 14 | 1 in 25K | 14 | — | — |
54,261 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026, counting the spelling witold. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Witold is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
German, Polish: as a German name, this derives from the Germanic elements w da wide or witu wood + wald ruler. As a Polish name, it represents an assimilation to this form of the Lithuanian name Vytautas , borne in the 14th century by the first Christian ruler of Lithuania. Variant: Polish: Witold .
as a word
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)- Witold Lutosławskib. 1913PLPolish composer and conductor (1913-1994)
- Wojciech Jaruzelskib. 1923PLnot in their usual namePolish military and political official, leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1981 to 1989
- Andrzej Wajdab. 1926PLnot in their usual namePolish film director (1926–2016)
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)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Witold a male or female name?
- Witold is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Poland (dane.gov.pl), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Finland (DVV).
- What are other forms of the name Witold?
- In the etymology graph, Vytautas and Witołd are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Witold?
- In Polish /ˈvi.tɔlt/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Witold mean?
- Recorded meaning: männl. Vom. polnischer Herkunft, der auf litauisch Vytautas (< lit.
- Which countries have the most people named Witold?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 54 thousand people named Witold, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled VitOld. After it come United States, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Witold most common?
- Witold is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 706 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Witold?
- In Poland, the national register counted 54,261 people named Witold in 2026, about 1 in 706 residents.
- How common is Witold compared with other names?
- In Belarus, Witold is the 424th most common given name of 7,499 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Witold?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/witoldThe 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, “Witold” — ranked 88th in Poland (dane.gov.pl). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.