Given name & surname
Vito
“one who gives life”
Vito is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “one who gives life.”
Original LatinVitus
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “one who gives life.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
In Esperanto usage, Vito developed from Vitus.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1898. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Vito through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15,052
- 15,052 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 316 babies
- 2025
- 117
- #1,507 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +7%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 117 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,507 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 7.0% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 316 in 1925. In 2025, New York had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (16). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 9,594 as a first name in 2020; 1,644 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.
Vito’s family of names
In French usage, Vito is a diminutive of Victor. In Esperanto usage, Vito developed from the Latin form Vitus. In Esperanto usage, Vito has a conventional equivalent in the French form Guy.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Vito has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Vito comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Victorfull form · French
- Vitaliyvariant
- Vitalyvariant
- Vitalivariant
- Vitusvariant · Latin, English
- Vitasvariant
- Vittusvariant · Danish
- Vituccipet form · Italian
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Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- GuyFrench, English
- WitPolish
- Witoequivalent
- Vitequivalent
- VeitGerman
- Vidrelated form
- Vítequivalent
- Vítohas masculine form
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People named Vito
- Vito VolterraItalian mathematician and mathematical physicist (1860-1940)
- Vito MannoneItalian association football player (born 1988)
- Vito AcconciAmerican designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist (1940-2017)
- Vito GenoveseItalian-born American mobster(1897-1969)
- Vito Dell'AquilaItalian taekwondo practitioner (2000-)
- Vito ScottiAmerican actor (1918-1996)
- Vito Cascio Ferromember of the Sicilian Mafia (1862–1943)
- Vito RussoAmerican writer (1946–1990)
- Vito AntuofermoAmerican boxerborn 1953
Characters named Vito: Vito Corleone (Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather), Vito Spatafore (The Sopranos).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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