Vital
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: vital (relating to, or characteristic of life)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bital/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vital is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 38K
- USUnited States1 in 66K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
David ben Salomon Vital and Hayyim ben Joseph Vital; rabino/cabalista; linked to Turkey, Greece and Safed
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Vital is read(measured from records)
Vital is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Portuguese38%
vital (relating to, or characteristic of life)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish30%
From Latin Vitalis, from uita 'life': 'alive' or 'life-giving'
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English20%
relationship name from the Old French personal name Vitel (from Latin vitalis ‘pertaining to life, vital’), the name of ten or more Christian saints. This was a common given name for a time in England after the Conquest, both in its learned form Vitalis and in its northern French form Vial . Some examples may belong under (2).
as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Relating to or characteristic of life.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vital in French.
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)
Vital 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #371 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 6.5K | Vital | 136 |
| US United States | — | 5,004 | 1 in 66K | 5K | Vital | 179 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Vital | 28 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 2.1K | — | 3 |
| PT Portugal | #513 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Vital | 81 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 240 | 1 in 35K | 240 | Vital | 16 |
| DM Dominica | — | 73 | 1 in 1K | 73 | — | — |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)
Vital 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.
David ben Salomon Vital and Hayyim ben Joseph Vital; rabino/cabalista; linked to Turkey, Greece and Safed
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
nome amuleto; vida
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)
- Samuel Vitalb. 1598SYOttoman Syrian rabbi
- Andrea Vitalb. 1855CHSwiss politician (1855-1943)
- Naum Vitalb. 1889CLYiddish writer
- Jean-Jacques Vitalb. 1913FRFrench actor (1913-1977)
- Alfredo Gutiérrezb. 1943COnot in their usual nameColombian accordionist
- Francisco Vitalb. 1954PTPortuguese football player/manager/director
- Lionel Vitalb. 1963USAmerican football player (born 1963
- Martha Vitalb. 1963MXMexican politician
- Yedidya Vitalb. 1984ILIsraeli actor
- Pascale VitalFRFrench actress
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 70 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5K | #6,739 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.8K | #6,713 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.7K | #8,294 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 240 | #5,347 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 180 | — |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 73 | #155 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Vital come from?
- David ben Salomon Vital and Hayyim ben Joseph Vital; rabino/cabalista; linked to Turkey, Greece and Safed Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- What does the name Vital mean?
- In Portuguese, vital (relating to, or characteristic of life)
- In which country does Vital have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Vital in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vital.
- Where is Vital most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vital is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 1.0 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Vital?
- A machine transcription gives /bital/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What are other forms of the name Vital?
- In the etymology graph, Vidal, Vitale and Vitali are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Vital?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,004 people named Vital in 2010, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.
- How common is Vital compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Vital is the 371st most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vitalThe 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, “Vital” — the 371st most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.