# Vitus (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/vitus/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | “a person from bithynia”, “life” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 19 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 19 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Name of an early martyr, Late Latin Vitus, perhaps from a Thracian word meaning "a person from Bithynia". Also associated with Latin vita (“life”). Vitus has also been used as a Latinization of Guy.

## What it means

Vitus is grouped under life.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 6 | 3,936 |
| 2010 | 7 | 10,698 |
| 2016 | 6 | 12,091 |

## In other languages

- Catalan: Guiu
- Czech: Vít
- French: Vital
- German: Veit
- Italian: Vito
- Spanish: Vito

## People named Vitus

- Vitus Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer (1681-1741)
- Vitus Rubianto Solichin, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Padang
- Vitus Eicher, German footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.