Tito

Where Tito comes from

From Romance Tito (Spanish Tito, Portuguese Tito, Italian Tito); from Latin Titus,
— Wiktionary's entry for Tito
  • Italian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1909
    First appearance
    #1,440 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1913
    Tito Gobbi born
    Italian opera singer
  3. 1914
    Tito Okello born
    Former President of Uganda from 29th July 1985 to 26th January 1986.
  4. 1974
    Peak, #807
    99 babies named Tito — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,577.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romance languages
Namesakes
  • Tito Gobbi · Italian opera singer, 1913–1984
  • Tito Okello · Former President of Uganda from 29th July 1985 to 26th January 1986., 1914–1996
  • Tito Ortiz · American mixed martial artist, born 1975
  • Tito Schipa · Italian tenor, 1888–1965
  • Tito Santana · American professional wrestler, born 1953

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.