Vitas

surname · Latin script

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

Vitas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 14K(measured from records)
  • LTLithuania≈1 in 15K
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 16K

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.

Serbia (inferred from the name graph)

≈430 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
50 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VitasLatin(measured from records)
ВитасCyrillic(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)

recorded in Lithuanian

Plg. Vita, Vitas, Vitis, Vytis, Vytys (žr.). Pavardės Vytas, Vytis gali būti trumpiniai iš sudurtinio asmenvardžio su pirmuoju sandu vy-, dažniausiai, matyt, iŠ Vytauto. Pavardžių su vit- kilmė mažiau aiški. Dažnai jos gali būti vėliau pakitę iš pavardžių su vy-, tačiau neretai jos gali būti išsirutulioję iš lotyniškos kilmės vardų Vitas (lot. Vitus), Vitalijus ar pan. v¥TAS-VILIt5NAS Gdr - žr. Vytas, Viliūnas

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vitas 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.

Where Vitas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia≈430 est.≈1 in 16K—Vitas25
HR Croatia3051 in 14K305Vitas50
LT Lithuania≈190 est.≈1 in 15Klisted——
ES Spain1761 in 284K176—2
US United States1751 in 1.9M183Vitas20
SI Slovenia201 in 105K20Vitas3

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

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

  • Russian given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Витас, Вітас, Витаса, Vytas

44 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Vitas 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.

  • In Russian, var of Vitash.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Latin, accusative plural of vīta

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Cristóbal María Cortés, b. 1740Juozas Vitas, b. 1899Duško Vitas, b. 1949Dragan Vitas, b. 1968Damir Vitas, b. 1981Uroš Vitas, b. 1992

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 48 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Vitas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021305#2,626
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021287—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020183#104,276
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—176#18,213
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—176#18,163
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010175#102,688
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000175#96,480
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—20#13,570
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

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

In which country does Vitas have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 432 people named Vitas in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vitas.
Where is Vitas most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vitas is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Serbia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Vitas?
In Croatia, the national register counted 305 people named Vitas in 2021, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.

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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, “Vitas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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