Vitalė
given name · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Vitalė is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: relationship name from the medieval Italian personal name Vitale (Latin Vitalis, a derivative of vita ‘life’).
- ITItaly≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 7.9K
- UYUruguay1 in 8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 434 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vitale in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IT Italy and 3 more.
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)relationship name from the medieval Italian personal name Vitale (Latin Vitalis, a derivative of vita ‘life’). Further information: The personal name was popular among Christians as a symbol of their belief in eternal life, and was borne by a dozen early saints; it became especially popular in Emilia-Romagna because of two saints, San Vitale of Bologna and San Vitale of Ravenna. As a Jewish personal name it represents a calque of the Hebrew personal name Chayim ‘life’ (compare Hyam ).
Cited for this meaning 8
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vitalė 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 1 | Vitale | 93 |
| US United States | — | 13,220 | 1 in 25K | 13K | Vitale | 434 |
| AR Argentina | — | 5,736 | 1 in 7.9K | 5.7K | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 224 | Vitale | 99 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Vitale | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 584 | 1 in 14K | 584 | Vitale | 31 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 426 | 1 in 8K | 426 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | #465 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Vitale | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vitalė mean, and where does it come from?
- relationship name from the medieval Italian personal name Vitale (Latin Vitalis, a derivative of vita ‘life’). Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Vitalė have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Vitalė in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vitale.
- How common is the name Vitalė?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,220 people named Vitalė in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Vitalė compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Vitalė is the 465th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vital%C4%97The 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, “Vitalė” — the 465th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.