Vito
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vito is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In Italian, recorded as vita life; cf. Vita). The name was popular in the Middle.
- ITItaly≈1 in 946(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 20K
- DEGermany≈1 in 25K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 309 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 946 (inferred from the name graph)
≈66,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
From Latin Vitus, from uita 'life': 'alive, vital'; also Latin form of Germanic Wido
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Vito is read(measured from records)
Vito is one spelling over 4 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.
- English43%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vito in English.
- Italian24%
vita life; cf. Vita). The name was popular in the Middle
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Nome latino di etimologia incerta; legato ai santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Nome latino. ma di etimologia incerta. Ss. Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia, martiri, secolo V, 15 giugno, patroni di Udine, Loreto, Recanati e forse di altre città. Nei cogn., eccettuati Viti, De Vito, Vio. De Vio, si confonde con Guido, e talora con dgabito.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
- Spanish14%
From Latin Vitus, from uita 'life': 'alive, vital'; also Latin form of Germanic Wido
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
an Andalusian music style and dance
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Serbo-Croatian5.7%
neuter singular passive past participle of viti
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)
Vito 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #157 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 946 | 154 | Vito | 186 |
| US United States | — | 9,594 | 1 in 35K | 9.6K | Vito | 309 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Vito | 118 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 327 | Vito | 63 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,310 | 1 in 92K | 2.9K | Vito | 86 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,811 | 1 in 2.3K | 4.1K | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,238 | 1 in 1.7K | 1.3K | Vito | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | #897 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | 8 | Vito | 62 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 18 | Vito | 32 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vito Volterrab. 1860ITItalian mathematician and mathematical physicist (1860-1940)
- Vito Cascio Ferrob. 1862ITmember of the Sicilian Mafia (1862–1943)
- Vito Genoveseb. 1897ITItalian-born American mobster(1897-1969)
- Vito Scottib. 1918USAmerican actor (1918-1996)
- Vito Lattanziob. 1926ITItalian politician (1926-2010)
- Vito Acconcib. 1940USAmerican designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist (1940-2017)
- Vito Russob. 1946USAmerican writer (1946–1990)
- Vito Antuofermob. 1953ITAmerican boxer
- Vito Mannoneb. 1988ITItalian association football player (born 1988)
- Vito Dell'Aquilab. 2000ITItalian taekwondo practitioner (2000-)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 90 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9.6K | #2,532 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 4.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.9K | #4,721 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.3K | #4,634 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.8K | #395 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.3K | #337 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 1.2K | #161 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 316 | #379 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 260 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 259 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 154 | #132 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
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 Vito come from?
- From Latin Vitus, from uita 'life': 'alive, vital'; also Latin form of Germanic Wido Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Is Vito a male or female name?
- Vito 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.
- In which country does Vito have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 66 thousand people named Vito in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vito.
- What are other forms of the name Vito?
- In the etymology graph, Vitus and Vít are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Vito?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,594 people named Vito in 2020, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Vito compared with other names?
- In Italy, Vito is the 157th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Vito mean?
- In Italian, vita life; cf. Vita). The name was popular in the Middle
What do you want to know about Vito?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vitoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Vito” — the 157th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.