Vit
loc · Latin script
Meaning: masculine singular passive participle of vít (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Vit is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Vit is also written Віт in Cyrillic.
- CZCzechia≈1 in 670(inferred from the name graph)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 14Kfew records
- SISlovenia1 in 51K
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 Vit 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.
- Czechia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 666 (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Vit in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Vít in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia.
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)masculine singular passive participle of vít
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vit 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.
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: naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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)Vit is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, redução dialetal setentrional de Vito
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, Slavic stem from asl. viti 'gain, profit'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, si. Stamm, zu asl. viti "Gewinn". Witoslaw, Wi'Slaw, Vitoljub (Witt- lieb), Witek (x Vitus). Witt|au, ig, ing, ka, chen, ki, ko, ge, ek, eg, esch, osch, sack, schock; Witz|ak, ek, ig, ke, og; W i e t z, | e, e;l, ig, ke, ky, seh, Witzschke; Wiet|asch, eck, ing
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Italian, Variante di Viti
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Russian, "vision."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)- Vít Kárníkb. 1926CZCzech geophysicist and seismologist (1926-1994)
- Vít Rakušanb. 1978CZCzech teacher and politician
- Vít Jedličkab. 1983CZCzech politician and activist (born 1983)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)43 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vit mean, and where does it come from?
- masculine singular passive participle of vít Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people named Vit?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Vit in Czechia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vít. After it come Poland, Brazil, Slovakia and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Vit?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 41 people named Vit in 2025, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Vit compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Vit is the 177th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vit?
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/vitThe 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, “Vit” — ranked 54th in Czechia (naše jména). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.