Given name & surname · also Spanish
Lito
Lito is a masculine given name from Spanish, ultimately from Late Latin. It is used in Spanish, Cebuano, and Galician.
Original SpanishHipólito
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Lito comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Late Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Cebuano usage, Lito is a diminutive of Manuel. In Cebuano usage, Lito is a diminutive of Carlo.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lito through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 38
- 38 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,148 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,148 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 572 as a first name in 2020; 145 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lito’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Lito is a diminutive of Manuel. In Greek usage, Lito as a surname is a transliteration of Λίτο. In Cebuano usage, Lito is a diminutive of Carlo.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Lito has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
7 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 6
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 Lito
- Lito LapidFilipino actor and politician (born 1955)
- Lito VitaleArgentine musicianborn 1961
- Lito CruzArgentinian actor (1941-2017)
- Lito ÁlvarezArgentine tennis playerborn 1947
- Lito SheppardAmerican football player, cornerbackborn 1981
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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