Vitus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: von Rufname Vitus; patronymischer Familienname
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vajtəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vitus is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Nigeria.
- TZTanzania
- NGNigeria
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
von Rufname Vitus; patronymischer Familienname
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Vitus is read(measured from records)
Vitus is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English39%
Christian saint
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Latin: child saint; see also Vitale, Vivian
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- German26%
von Rufname Vitus; patronymischer Familienname
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
from Latin Vitus; etymology uncertain
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Swahili16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vitus in Swahili.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Vitus is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Child Saint
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The name of a child saint martyred in Sicily at an unknown (but early) date, together with his nurse Crescentia and her husband Modestus. His name seems to derive from Latin vita life (cf. VITA ), and his two companions bear unmistakably Latin names, but there has been some confusion with forms of GUY . Derivatives: German: Veit. Polish: Wit. Czech: Vít .
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)
- Vitasb. 1190PLnot in their usual namePolish priest
- Vitus Beringb. 1617DKDanish writer and poet (1617-1675)
- Vitus Georg Tönnemannb. 1659DEGerman theologian and priest (1659-1740)
- Vitus Beringb. 1681DKDanish-born Russian explorer (1681-1741)
- Vitus Changb. 1903CNChinese priest (1903–1982)
- Vitus Heinzeb. 1909DEGerman politician (1909-1988)
- Vitus Huonderb. 1942CHSwiss Catholic bishop (1942–2024)
- Vitus Zeplichalb. 1947ATAustrian actor
- Vitus Wieserb. 1977ATAustrian actor
- Vitus Eicherb. 1990DEGerman footballer
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)
Attested in 50 sources across 29 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Vitus?
- A machine transcription gives /vajtəs/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Vitus?
- In the etymology graph, Vito and Vít are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Vitus a male or female name?
- Vitus is a male 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.
- What does the name Vitus mean?
- Recorded meaning: von Rufname Vitus; patronymischer Familienname
- In which country does Vitus have the most bearers?
- Vitus is most frequently recorded in Nigeria.
What do you want to know about Vitus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vitusThe 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, “Vitus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.