Vitellius
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Roman emperor
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vitellius is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 23Kas Vitelio(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela1 in 43Kas Vitelio
- PEPeru≈1 in 56Kas Vitelio
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 Vitellius 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.
- Venezuela (measured from records)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
665 named Vitelio
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est., as Vitelio
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Vitelio in PE Peru, SV El Salvador, VE Venezuela and 2 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)
Roman emperor
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vitellius 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | — | 665as Vitelio | 1 in 43K | 665 | Vitelio | 10 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Vitelio | 29 |
| SV El Salvador | #791 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Vitelio | 12 |
| GT Guatemala | #996 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Vitelio | 8 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 180K | — | Vitelio | 25 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 3 | — | 8 |
665 people counted by asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)
Vitellius 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.
In Latin, a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
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 Vitellius mean, and where does it come from?
- Roman emperor Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Vitellius have the most bearers?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted about 665 people named Vitelio, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Vitellius?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 665 people named Vitelio, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Vitellius compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Vitellius is the 791st most common given name of 28,124 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vitellius?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vitelliusThe 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, “Vitellius” — the 791st most common given name in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.