Given name & surname · also Latin
Italo
“a man from Italy”
Italo is used as a given name and a surname. One Italian interpretation is “a man from Italy.” Its derivation is not certain.
Original ItalianItalino
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Italian interpretation is “a man from Italy.” Its derivation is not certain.
Where it comes from
A possible origin is Latin, although the derivation remains uncertain.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1911. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Italo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 760
- 760 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 31 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #7,368 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +55%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,368 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 31 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,287 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Italo’s family of names
In Italian usage, Italo has a diminutive in ITALINO. Italo has a feminine form in Itala. Italo has a related form in Italeo.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Italo
- Italo CalvinoItalian journalist and writer (1923-1985)
- Italo BalboItalian Marshal of the Air Force and minister (1896–1940)
- Italo GariboldiItalian general (1879-1970)
- Italo De ZanItalian cyclist (1925–2020)
- Italo MontemezziItalian composer (1875–1952)
- Italo SantelliItalian fencer (1866–1945)
- Ítalo FerreiraBrazilian surferborn 1994
- Italo Ziliolicyclistborn 1941
- Italo GalbiatiItalian football player and manager (1937–2023)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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