Given name & surname
Sisto
“a cowboy”
Sisto is used as a given name and a surname. One American interpretation is “a cowboy.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One American interpretation is “a cowboy.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is American.
How it developed
In Italian use, Sisto is used as a variant of Sesto.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sisto through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 406
- 406 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1935
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 1935. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 270 as a first name in 2020; 1,239 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.
Sisto’s family of names
Sisto shares a linguistic root with Sextus. Sisto has a related form in Sesto. In Italian usage, Sisto has a conventional equivalent in the German form Sixtus.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Sisto
- Sisto BadalocchioItalian painter (1585-1647)
- Sisto Riario SforzaItalian cardinal (1810–1877)
- Sisto Gara della RovereItalian cardinal (1473–1517)
- Sixtus of SienaJewish-born convert to Christianity, scholar and theologian1520–1569
- Sisto ScilligoItalian Alpini soldier and skier1911–1992
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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