Titus

Where Titus comes from

Borrowed from Latin Titus, a Roman and Sabine praenomen meaning either "honorable" or "strong; of the giants".
— Wiktionary's entry for Titus
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1962
    Titus Welliver born
    American actor
  3. 1981
    Titus Bramble born
    English former professional footballer
  4. 2015
    Peak, #280
    1,325 babies named Titus — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Titus Welliver · American actor, born 1962
  • Titus Bramble · English former professional footballer, born 1981
  • Titus Brandsma · Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest, professor of philosophy and saint, 1881–1942
  • Titus O'Neil · American wrestler and football player, born 1977
  • Titus Buberník · Slovak footballer, 1933–2022

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.