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Vytas

Boys' name

English equivalent of Guy

Vytas has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1952. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1952, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Vytas, 1969

1 in 695,000

Vytas over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vytas: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Guy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vytas means

Vytas is a English equivalent of Guy.

Origin, language, and formation

Vytas is used in Lithuanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Guy.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Vytas is pronounced [¹ˈʋʲiːtɐs].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Vytas between 1952 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1952; its best national rank was #4,237 in 1952.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Vytas?

Vytas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1969
1 in 695,000
5 of 3,475,126 births
Among boys only
1 in 358,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1969
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,756 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vytas sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1969 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,756 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vytas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vytass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vytas was born before 1959 — so the typical Vytas is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Vytas rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1952 (5)
Years since peak
73
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,237
1952

Spellings of Vytas

Vytas is not the most common spelling — Sylas is, with 68.2% against Vytas's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Vytas around the world

Where Vytas ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1959–1980
    #422
    in 1980

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vytas by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,237
1952
Peak year
1952
5 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
1969
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vytas

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Vytas

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Vytas

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