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Vytautas

Boys' name

Chase, pursuer + land; country

Vytautas has been given to 52 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1956, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Vytautas, 1958

1 in 827,000

Vytautas over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vytautas: meaning, origin, and history

Chase, pursuer + land; country

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vytautas means

Vytautas means “chase, pursuer + land; country”, associated with vyti and tauta.

Origin, language, and formation

Vytautas is used in Lithuanian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Vytautas is pronounced [¹ˈʋʲiːtɒʊtɐs].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 52 boys were recorded with the name Vytautas between 1918 and 1958. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1956; its best national rank was #2,788 in 1956.

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 Vytautas?

Vytautas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1958, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1958
1 in 827,000
5 of 4,133,550 births
Among boys only
1 in 424,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1958
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
573,033 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vytautas 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 1958 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 573,033 children born in 1958 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vytautas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vytautass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vytautas was born before 1955 — so the typical Vytautas is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
90.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
47
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1950s — 90.4% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Vytautas 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1956 (10)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,788
1956

Vytautas around the world

Where Vytautas 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.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2009–2009
    #701
    in 2009
  • Norway
    1880–1994
    #553
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1951–1982
    #424
    in 1982

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vytautas 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
#2,788
1956
Peak year
1956
10 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
1958
All-time count
52
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vytautas

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

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Sibling names for Vytautas

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

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