Vaitkus

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Vaitkus is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Plg. Vaitkė (žr.). Sietina sų lenk.

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

recorded in Lithuanian

Plg. Vaitkė (žr.). Sietina sų lenk. Wojtko, Wojtek : Wojciech (SSNO VI 181), brus. Boūmkxo : „ Boūmex (M. Bupina, 1966, c. 45—46).

Sources 1

  • Vanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vaitkus counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Vaitkus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
US United States—210—
NO Norway—164—
FI Finland—47—
SE Sweden—26—
DK Denmark—17—

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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Vaitkus is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Вайткус, Ваиткус, Vaǐtkus, Vaĭtkus

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Mykolas Vaitkus, b. 1883Feliksas Vaitkus, b. 1907Juozas Vidmantis Vaitkus, b. 1941Algirdas Vaitkus, b. 1948Eduardas Vaitkus, b. 1956Rimantas Vaitkus, b. 1957Balys Vaitkus, b. 1963Linas Vaitkus, b. 1973Tomas Vaitkus, b. 1982Ignas Vaitkus, b. 1993

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 15 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Vaitkus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010210#88,336
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020208#94,341
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000172#97,848
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—164#9,643
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—47#24,202
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—26#20,931
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—17#26,317
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Wikipedia surname 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

What does the name Vaitkus mean?
Recorded meaning: Plg. Vaitkė (žr.). Sietina sų lenk.
In which country does Vaitkus have the most bearers?
Vaitkus is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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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, “Vaitkus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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