Given name & surname · also Romance
Tito
“of the giants”·“a great defender”
Tito is a variant of Titus. Interpretations include “of the giants” and “a great defender”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Original LatinTitus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tito is a variant of Titus. Interpretations include “of the giants” and “a great defender”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Tito comes from Romance, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Italian usage, Tito developed from Titus.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1909. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tito through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,376
- 3,376 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 99 babies
- 2025
- 25
- #4,239 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +1%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 25 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,239 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 0.9% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 99 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,682 as a first name in 2020; 1,309 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.
Tito’s family of names
In Italian usage, Tito developed from the Latin form Titus. In Italian usage, Tito has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Tytus. Tito has a related form in Titus.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Tito has relatives in 33 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Tito comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- TytusPolish
- Titafeminine form · Italian
- TituSicilian
- TitRomanian, Slovene
- 提多cdo
- TitamLatvian
- テトスJapanese
- TítusIcelandic
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See also 4
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Tito
- Tito GobbiItalian opera singer (1913–1984)
- Tito OkelloFormer President of Uganda from 29th July 1985 to 26th January 1986.1914–1996
- Tito OrtizAmerican mixed martial artistborn 1975
- Tito SchipaItalian tenor (1889-1965)
- Tito Livio BurattiniItalian-Polish inventor, Egyptologist, instrument-maker1617–1681
- Tito SantanaAmerican professional wrestlerborn 1953
- Tito GuízarMexican singer and actor (1908-1999)
- Tito MboweniSouth African politician1959–2024
- Tito KarnavianIndonesian politicianborn 1964
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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