Tito
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Titus (biblical character)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tito/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tito is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.2K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 275 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Josip Broz Tito, a Yugoslav revolutionary and politician.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tito is read(measured from records)
Tito is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish56%
Titus (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Latín Titus, prenombre sabino; etimología antigua dudosa, quizá etrusca
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English16%
Josip Broz Tito, a Yugoslav revolutionary and politician.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese6.8%
Titus (a book of the New Testament)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tito counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Tito | 70 |
| TZ Tanzania | #944 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Tito | 21 |
| PE Peru | #314 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Tito | 78 |
| EC Ecuador | #381 | 9,474 | 1 in 1.8K | 9.5K | Tito | 44 |
| CO Colombia | #824 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Tito | 94 |
| VE Venezuela | #704 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Tito | 46 |
| AO Angola | #227 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Tito | 23 |
| SV El Salvador | #552 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Tito | 29 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tito is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma ital. de Titus; pode indicar habitante de Tito
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Plg. Titas (žr.) ir lenk. Tytus(z) (SSN O V 512).
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tito Schipab. 1888ITItalian tenor (1889-1965)
- Tito Vuolob. 1893ITItalian-born American actor (1893-1962)
- Tito Gobbib. 1913ITItalian opera singer (1913–1984)
- Tito Okellob. 1914UGFormer President of Uganda from 29th July 1985 to 26th January 1986.
- Tito Albertib. 1923ARnoted Argentine jazz drummer (1923–2009)
- Adolfo Tito Yllanab. 1948PHFilipino Roman Catholic archbishop
- Tito Goyab. 1951USAmerican actor (1951–1985)
- Tito Santanab. 1953USAmerican professional wrestler
- Muhammad Tito Karnavianb. 1964IDIndonesian politician
- Tito Ortizb. 1975USAmerican mixed martial artist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 102 sources across 52 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 9.5K | #205 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 21 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Tito come from?
- Josip Broz Tito, a Yugoslav revolutionary and politician. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Tito mean?
- In Spanish, Titus (biblical character)
- How do you pronounce Tito?
- A machine transcription gives /tito/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Tito a male or female name?
- Tito is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Tito?
- In the etymology graph, Titu, Tit and Titas are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tito have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Tito in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tito.
- Where is Tito most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tito is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tito?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 9,474 people named Tito in 2024, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Tito compared with other names?
- In Angola, Tito is the 227th most common given name of 11,132 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tito?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/titoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tito” — the 227th most common given name in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.