Given name
Vytautas
“chase, pursuer”·“nation, folk”
Vytautas is a masculine given name. It is used in Lithuanian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Vytautas is built from elements meaning “chase, pursuer” and “nation, folk”.
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How it developed
Built from Lithuanian vyti (“chase, pursuer”) + tauta (“nation, folk”).
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Vytautas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 52
- 52 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1956
- 10 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 5 in 1958. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1956. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 400 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Vytautas’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Vytautas has a later derivative in Witold. In Lithuanian usage, Vytautas has a related form in VITOLDAS. In Lithuanian usage, Vytautas has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Witold.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Vytautas has relatives in 9 languages.
9 related names in 9 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Vitoldequivalent
- Witoldborrowing · Polish, German
- Vytasequivalent
- Vitoldusderivative · Latin
- Витовтъderivative · zle-ort
- Вітаўтborrowing · Belarusian
- Vitautsequivalent
- Vytautėfeminine form
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People named Vytautas
- Vytautas the GreatGrand Duke of Lithuania1350–1430
- Vytautas LandsbergisLithuanian politician and musicologist (born 1932)
- Vytautas ŽalakevičiusSoviet film director (1930–1996)
- Vytautas MačernisLithuanian writer (1921–1944)
- Vytautas ČerniauskasLithuanian footballerborn 1989
- Vitovt PutnaSoviet Red Army officer1893–1937
- Vytautas BriedisLithuanian rower (1940–2019)
- Vytautas ButkusLithuanian rowerborn 1949
- Vytautas AndriuškevičiusLithuanian footballerborn 1990
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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