Vital Forename
14,410th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 67,027 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
DR Congo
Highest density in:
Burundi
Vital Forename Definition:
A male name. Latin vitalis ‘of or belonging to life’, ‘vital’; the name of several early saints, SS Vitalis of Bologna, Ravenna, and Rome. The name was introduced into England by the Normans and was not uncommon in the 12th-13th C. Vyell Vivian Esq.
Read More About This ForenameVital Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 99% | 22,125 | 1:3,337 | 480 |
| Burundi | 100% | 10,862 | 1:912 | 282 |
| Brazil | 100% | 10,671 | 1:20,076 | 1,838 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 6,768 | 1:1,680 | 361 |
| India | 97% | 3,251 | 1:373,694 | 32,650 |
| Russia | 100% | 1,876 | 1:76,884 | 1,596 |
| Belgium | 100% | 1,253 | 1:9,170 | 1,029 |
| Canada | 100% | 1,177 | 1:28,151 | 2,289 |
| Angola | 100% | 1,080 | 1:24,969 | 1,864 |
| Haiti | 100% | 917 | 1:11,698 | 1,190 |
| Belarus | 99% | 882 | 1:10,751 | 258 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 556 | 1:38,868 | 2,758 |
| Portugal | - | 480 | 1:21,689 | 1,011 |
| France | 100% | 453 | 1:146,734 | 2,742 |
| Benin | 100% | 435 | 1:24,312 | 2,455 |
| United States | 100% | 346 | 1:1,047,795 | 21,621 |
| Congo | 100% | 298 | 1:16,809 | 1,847 |
| Kazakhstan | 99% | 271 | 1:65,487 | 2,380 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 253 | 1:32,464 | 1,776 |
| Ghana | 100% | 225 | 1:119,939 | 4,817 |
| Mali | 100% | 221 | 1:76,822 | 3,384 |
| Cape Verde | - | 219 | 1:2,416 | 400 |
| Burkina Faso | 97% | 204 | 1:90,095 | 5,075 |
| Israel | 54% | 187 | 1:44,935 | 2,933 |
| Mexico | 79% | 127 | 1:977,515 | 8,018 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 116 | 1:265,400 | 5,580 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 108 | 1:488,781 | 13,998 |
| Malawi | 100% | 106 | 1:161,437 | 7,641 |
| Argentina | 96% | 99 | 1:432,053 | 3,456 |
| Georgia | 99% | 96 | 1:38,942 | 2,116 |
| Germany | 100% | 96 | 1:1,007,061 | 7,861 |
| Ivory Coast | 95% | 80 | 1:288,449 | 12,816 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 72 | 1:234,751 | 8,223 |
| Costa Rica | 94% | 71 | 1:67,154 | 2,607 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 68 | 1:50,406 | 1,814 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 62 | 1:2,863,941 | 50,739 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 62 | 1:39,657 | 1,840 |
| Peru | 98% | 59 | 1:538,838 | 9,334 |
| Spain | 100% | 58 | 1:802,241 | 7,895 |
| Uganda | 88% | 56 | 1:731,374 | 14,473 |
| Colombia | - | 50 | 1:955,579 | 11,126 |
| Senegal | 100% | 45 | 1:324,030 | 5,183 |
| Albania | 100% | 41 | 1:74,307 | 5,793 |
| England | 100% | 37 | 1:1,502,782 | 21,359 |
| Philippines | 83% | 37 | 1:2,865,121 | 57,898 |
| Panama | 100% | 35 | 1:111,616 | 5,306 |
| El Salvador | - | 30 | 1:211,393 | 2,936 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 25 | 1:22,562 | 1,267 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 22 | 1:8,727 | 1,115 |
| Paraguay | 93% | 21 | 1:344,610 | 4,184 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 21 | 1:1,438,185 | 27,865 |
| Moldova | - | 20 | 1:178,057 | 1,710 |
| Pakistan | 90% | 20 | 1:9,717,884 | 69,757 |
| Honduras | 100% | 18 | 1:489,859 | 7,529 |
| Chile | 100% | 16 | 1:1,100,450 | 9,633 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 16 | 1:6,097,508 | 12,067 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 13 | 1:18,725 | 1,070 |
| South Africa | 88% | 13 | 1:4,194,819 | 94,932 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 10 | 1:601,834 | 9,645 |
| Armenia | 100% | 9 | 1:324,306 | 4,600 |
| Austria | 100% | 9 | 1:946,022 | 6,960 |
| Cambodia | 70% | 9 | 1:1,808,148 | 22,232 |
| East Timor | - | 9 | 1:135,375 | 266 |
| Indonesia | - | 9 | 1:28,662,630 | 639,955 |
| Sweden | 100% | 7 | 1:1,408,272 | 24,832 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 7 | 1:1,021,713 | 39,786 |
| Denmark | - | 6 | 1:941,583 | 11,543 |
| Australia | - | 5 | 1:2,731,524 | 22,009 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 5 | 1:1,194,655 | 24,199 |
| Ukraine | - | 5 | 1:9,099,982 | 12,980 |
| Wales | 100% | 5 | 1:618,862 | 7,373 |
| Zambia | - | 5 | 1:3,170,959 | 26,788 |
| Central African Republic | - | 4 | 1:1,128,848 | 698 |
| Cuba | - | 4 | 1:2,876,638 | 6,272 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 4 | 1:2,607,818 | 19,206 |
| Gabon | - | 4 | 1:470,834 | 2,822 |
| Morocco | - | 4 | 1:8,587,159 | 11,086 |
| Suriname | - | 4 | 1:138,203 | 2,927 |
| Togo | - | 4 | 1:1,809,810 | 5,654 |
| Ecuador | - | 3 | 1:5,908,973 | 18,111 |
| Italy | 97% | 3 | 1:20,354,030 | 45,650 |
| Malaysia | 100% | 3 | 1:10,149,980 | 208,386 |
| Nepal | 100% | 3 | 1:9,495,784 | 71,056 |
| Norway | 100% | 3 | 1:1,710,776 | 19,445 |
| Singapore | - | 3 | 1:2,095,685 | 22,815 |
| Thailand | 67% | 3 | 1:23,355,271 | 268,869 |
| Ireland | - | 2 | 1:2,321,760 | 8,894 |
| Bulgaria | 50% | 2 | 1:3,495,195 | 19,668 |
| China | - | 2 | 1:683,027,891 | 94,999 |
| Cyprus | - | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| Czechia | 100% | 2 | 1:5,328,081 | 8,108 |
| Dominica | - | 2 | 1:37,736 | 863 |
| Finland | 100% | 2 | 1:2,741,592 | 19,235 |
| Lithuania | - | 2 | 1:1,475,941 | 3,949 |
| Namibia | - | 2 | 1:1,202,090 | 12,702 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 2 | 1:4,076,157 | 155,819 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 2 | 1:88,908 | 5,280 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 2 | 1:2,655,032 | 6,915 |
| Taiwan | - | 2 | 1:11,884,841 | 132,786 |
| Turkey | 100% | 2 | 1:38,900,854 | 64,839 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| Bangladesh | - | 1 | 1:159,461,366 | 36,167 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Croatia | 100% | 1 | 1:4,217,076 | 20,943 |
| Egypt | - | 1 | 1:91,900,946 | 53,283 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Greece | - | 1 | 1:10,934,548 | 22,228 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Hungary | 100% | 1 | 1:9,791,771 | 6,528 |
| Kenya | - | 1 | 1:46,307,110 | 74,921 |
| Kosovo | - | 1 | 1:1,861,440 | 22,170 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Mozambique | - | 1 | 1:27,243,357 | 5,091 |
| New Zealand | - | 1 | 1:4,536,044 | 17,392 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1 | 1:30,812,565 | 27,537 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 1 | 1:11,551,019 | 3,224 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 1 | 1:8,374,922 | 7,831 |
| Tunisia | - | 1 | 1:676,902 | 12,933 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:109,747 | 4,493 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 1 | 1:15,423,817 | 113,731 |
The alternate forms: Vitál (4) are calculated separately.
Vital (90,980) may also be a surname.
Vital Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. Latin vitalis ‘of or belonging to life’, ‘vital’; the name of several early saints, SS Vitalis of Bologna, Ravenna, and Rome. The name was introduced into England by the Normans and was not uncommon in the 12th-13th C. Vyell Vivian Esq. is found at Lancaster as late as 1799, but this may he a use of the surname. Veitel is still used in Germany.
Vitalis, Fitellus, Vithelet, Vitel, Fitel, Phitelet Domesday Book 1086. Vitalis Curia Regis Rolls 1203, 1205, 1210. Vital English Register of Godstow Nunnery, c. 1450 (E.E.T.S. 129-30) 1450, Lyford 1655. VieL Curia Regis Rolls 1210, 1213, Hundred Rolls 1273. Vitalis or Viel Testa de Neville, or Book of Fees, temp. Hen. III-Edw. I 13th C.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
An old name derived from the Latin vitalis, of life, lively, life-giving, life-preserving.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
Vital Forename Popularity
Vital Demographics
Average Vital Salary in
United States
$43,100 USD
Per year
Rank:
209,434 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.000113455
Rank: 19,487 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
99.02%
Sample size: 217 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
Phonetically Similar Names
Vital Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Vital in the Russian language | ||
| Витал | vital | - |
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