Given name & surname
Vitus
“one who gives life”
Vitus is a variant of Vito. One Latin interpretation is “one who gives life.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Vitus is a variant of Vito. One Latin interpretation is “one who gives life.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1929. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Vitus through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 19
- 19 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 7 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 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2010. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 156 as a first name in 2020; 125 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.
Vitus’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Vitus has a feminine form in Vita. In Latin usage, Vitus has a conventional equivalent in the French form Guy. Vitus has a related form in Vito.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Vitus has relatives in 12 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
10 related names in 12 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- GuyFrench
- Vitafeminine form · Lithuanian, Danish
- Witderivative · Polish
- Viettiequivalent
- Witoequivalent
- Videquivalent
- Vitequivalent
- Vítderivative · Slovak, Czech
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People named Vitus
- Vitus BeringDanish-born Russian explorer (1681-1741)
- Vitus HuonderSwiss Catholic bishop (1942–2024)
- WitPolish priest1190–1269
- Vitus GraberAustrian entomologist and zoologist (1844–1892)
- Vitus EicherGerman footballerborn 1990
- Vitus Rubianto SolichinBishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Padangborn 1968
- Vitus NagornyGerman footballerborn 1978
- Vitus Georg TönnemannGerman theologian and priest (1659-1740)
- Vitus BeringDanish writer and poet (1617-1675)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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