Vita
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vita is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: tgth-century coinage, either directly from Latin vita ‘life’, or else as a feminine form of the male name Vitus.
- HRCroatia1 in 5.8K(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 1.1Kas Віта
- RURussia≈1 in 15Kas Вита
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 Vita 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- 1 in 484 (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 named Віта, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Віта in UA Ukraine and Вита in RU Russia.
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)
tgth-century coinage, either directly from Latin vita ‘life’, or else as a feminine form of the male name Vitus. It has been borne most notably by the English writer Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962), in whose case it was a pet form of the given name Victoria.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vita 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #109 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Віта | 70 |
| RU Russia | #475 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 15K | #612 | Вита | 144 |
| PL Poland | — | 5,868 | 1 in 6.5K | 5.9K | Vita | 38 |
| LV Latvia | — | 3,889 | 1 in 484 | 3.9K | Vita | 20 |
| US United States | — | 3,856 | 1 in 86K | 3.8K | Vita | 90 |
| SI Slovenia | #396 | 2,430 | 1 in 865 | 2.6K | Vita | 26 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,498 | 1 in 3.9K | 1.5K | — | — |
| HR Croatia | #635 | 729 | 1 in 5.8K | 1.9K | Vita | 39 |
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); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Vita 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 English, A hagiography; a biography of a saint.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, do lat. vita; redução de nomes compostos como Bellavita ou Bonavita
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Swahili, Kiswahili: 'war, battle'
as a nameAfrican Names
In Italian, Italian: 'life'
as a nameAfrican Names
In English, Life
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
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)
- Vita Sackville-Westb. 1892GBEnglish writer, poet, and gardener (1892–1962)
- LaDonna Harrisb. 1931USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician, Native American activist
- Vita Buividb. 1962RURussian artist
- Vita Mavričb. 1965SISlovene singer
- Vita Gurvitzb. 1976ILIsraeli singer
- Vita Palamarb. 1977UAUkrainian high jumper
- Vita Jakimchukb. 1980UAUkrainian cross-country skier
- Vita Marissab. 1981IDIndonesian badminton player
- Vita Heineb. 1984LVLatvian-Norwegian cyclist
- Vita Semerenkob. 1986UAUkrainian biathlete
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)
Attested in 97 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5.9K | #247 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 5.9K | #247 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 3.9K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 3.9K | #139 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.8K | #4,711 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 2.6K | #204 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 2.4K | #117 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.9K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 1.5K | #302 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 729 | #628 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2024 | 121 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 61 | #4,711 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- What does the name Vita mean, and where does it come from?
- tgth-century coinage, either directly from Latin vita ‘life’, or else as a feminine form of the male name Vitus. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Vita?
- In the etymology graph, Vida is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Vita a male or female name?
- Vita is a female 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.
- How common is the name Vita?
- In Poland, the national register counted 5,868 people named Vita in 2026, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Vita compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Vita is the 109th most common given name of 85,149 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Vita have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Віта in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Vita most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vita is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 484 people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
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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, “Vita” — the 109th most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.