Vito

Where Vito comes from

Vito hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1860
    Vito Volterra born
    Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist
  2. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,121 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1925
    Peak, #320
    316 babies named Vito — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1933
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #454.
  5. 1988
    Vito Mannone born
    Italian association football player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Vito Volterra · Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist, 1860–1940
  • Vito Mannone · Italian association football player, born 1988
  • Vito Acconci · American designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist, 1940–2017
  • Vito Genovese · Italian-born American mobster, 1897–1969
  • Vito Dell'Aquila · Italian taekwondo practitioner, born 2000

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.