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Witold

Boys' name

Possibly chase, pursuer + land; country, through Vytautas

Witold has been given to 45 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1917, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Witold, 1924

1 in 476,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Witold: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly chase, pursuer + land; country, through Vytautas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Witold means

Witold belongs to the name family reached through Witold → Vytautas. Its meaning is “chase, pursuer + land; country”.

Origin, language, and formation

Witold is used in German and Polish.

Witold comes through Lithuanian Vytautas, Old High German witu and Old High German waltan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vytautas.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Witold is pronounced /ˈvi.tɔlt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 45 boys were recorded with the name Witold between 1916 and 1924. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1917; its best national rank was #3,211 in 1917.

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.

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How common is Witold?

Witold had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1924, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1924
1 in 476,000
5 of 2,381,562 births
Among boys only
1 in 227,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1924
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,156 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Witold 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 1924 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 330,156 children born in 1924 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Witold. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Witolds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Witold was born before 1920 — so the typical Witold is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
53.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 53.3% of all recorded uses (24).

Is Witold 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 1917 (8)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,211
1917

Witold around the world

Where Witold 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
    2016–2016
    #713
    in 2016
  • France
    1924–1994
    #3,482
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1954–1979
    #486
    in 1979

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Witold 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
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Best rank ever
#3,211
1917
Peak year
1917
8 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1924
All-time count
45
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Witold

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

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Sibling names for Witold

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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