Given name & surname
Vitali
“one who gives life”
Vitali is a variant of Vito. One Latin interpretation is “one who gives life.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Vitali is a variant of Vito. One Latin interpretation is “one who gives life.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Vitali is a variant of Vito. An origin associated with Vito is Latin. In Russian use, Vitali shares an earlier linguistic root with Vitale. An origin associated with Vitale is Late Latin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2004. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Vitali through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 123
- 123 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 2010. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 759 as a first name in 2020; 1,135 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Vitali’s family of names
Vitali shares a linguistic root with Vitale. Vitali has a related form in Vito. In Italian usage, Vitali has a related form in VIDALI.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Vitaliyequivalent
- Vitalyequivalent
- Vitalieequivalent
- Vitalijusequivalent
- Vitalecognate
- Vitalisequivalent
- Witalisequivalent
- Віталійequivalent
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People named Vitali
- Vitali KlitschkoUkrainian boxer and politician (1971-)
- VitasRussian singerborn 1979
- Vitaliy RahimovOlympic wrestlerborn 1984
- Vitali Tajbertboxerborn 1982
- Vitali KuznetsovUSSR judoka (1941–2011)
- Vitali KanevskySoviet and Russian film director, producer and screenwriterborn 1935
- Vitaly MelnikovSoviet and Russian film director, screenwriter (1928–2022)
- Vitaliy KhotsenkoPolitician in Donetsk regionborn 1986
- Vitali GudiyevRussian footballer, goalieborn 1995
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.