Vitus
About 19 American babies have been named Vitus since 1929, most of them around 2010. It has not appeared in the national data since 2016. About 13 Vituses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Vitus
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 19
- Estimated living today
- 13
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2010
- Best rank
- 9,693rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1929
Notable Vituss
- Vitus Bering (1681–1741)Danish-born Russian explorer
- Vitus Huonder (1942–2024)Swiss Catholic bishop
People named Vitus with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 2010
The most popular boys’ names the year Vitus peaked:
Vitus elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Vitus | 191 | 501st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Vitus: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Vitus | 187 | 0.015% | 356th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Vitus | 4 | 0.001% | 677th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Vitus is most concentrated in Lucerne, where 0.03% of children were given it – 26 of them.
Vitus by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 15 | 371st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Related names
Vitus against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.