Bitó

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Bitó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: A családnév alapja több Vit- kezdetű keresztnév egybeesése.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary≈1 in 122K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 157K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 227K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

447 people

Sources
30 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 122K (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bito in HU Hungary, US United States.

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)

Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: A családnév alapja több Vit- kezdetű keresztnév egybeesése. A szóba jöhető keresztnevek közül legvalószínűbb a latin eredetű, ’szíves, készséges, jóindulatú’ jelentésű Vitus vagy az ’életerős, eleven’ jelentésű Vitális > Vitályos, de lehetséges a germán (witu- ’erdő’ és -wald ’uralkodó’ összetétellel alakult) Withold. Mivel szókezdő mássalhangzóját az Árpád-kori magyar nyelvjárások nagy részében nem tudták kiejteni, b-vel helyettesítették (mint a Wachter > bakter; Wicke[n] > bükköny esetében is), vagy két ajakkal képzett zöngés spiránson (-n) keresztül lett B-. A Vit- ~ Bit- névrövidülést a magyar nyelv kicsinyítő -ó képzővel toldotta meg, s így előbb egyéni név lett belőle, amelynek a két magánhangzó közötti helyzetben levő -t- hangja megnyúlt (geminálódott), majd mind a Bitó, mind a Bittó, később a Vitó is apanévi családnévvé vált. Az ismeretlen eredetű, ’karó’ vagy később a bitófa rövidüléses alakjából elvont ’akasztófa’ jelentésű közszó azért nem jöhet számításba családnévként, mert köznévi előfordulásai csak a XVIII. század végéről ismertek. Elterjedtsége: Az északi, északkeleti nyelvterületen: Abaúj és Torna vármegyében különösen, de Csongrád megyében is gyakori.

Sources 1

  • Családnevek enciklopédiája

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bitó 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.

Where Bitó is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil4471 in 474K447——
US United States1231 in 2.7M124Bito7
HU Hungary≈80 est.≈1 in 122K—Bito30
NL Netherlands761 in 227K76—1
ES Spain611 in 820K61——
HR Croatia271 in 157K27——
NO Norway141 in 391K14——

447 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bitó is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Brazil, Peru

    Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bito, Bitô, ́bito, Bitō, Bitò

  • Romanian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bito

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia

    Also written Bito, Бито

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Cameroon, Belgium

    Also written Bito, Bitò

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Kaseshi Bitō, b. 1886László Z. Bitó, b. 1934János Bitó, b. 1936János Bitó, b. 1938Isao Bitō, b. 1943János Bitó, b. 1962Shinji Bito, b. 1973

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 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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

What does the name Bitó mean?
Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: A családnév alapja több Vit- kezdetű keresztnév egybeesése.
In which country does Bitó have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 447 people named Bitó, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Bitó?
In Brazil, the national register counted 447 people named Bitó, about 1 in 474 thousand residents.

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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, “Bitó”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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