Vito
Vito was given to 117 boys in 2025, #1,507 among boys’ names; 15,052 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,520 Americans named Vito and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 23 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vito by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vito mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Vito is “a male given name”
Inherited from Latin Vitus.
/ˈbito/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vito?
#1,507 among boys’ names, 2025
Vito rose from #1,667 in 2015 to #1,507 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 49.6 to 68.5 per million.
316 babies in 1925, the peak
Vito peaked in 1925, when 316 boys were given it, #321 among boys’ names. The 117 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 117 | #1,507 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 104 | #1,639 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 106 | #1,638 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 87 | #1,850 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 90 | #1,782 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 92 | #1,705 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 95 | #1,687 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 89 | #1,743 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 97 | #1,642 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 98 | #1,638 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (126)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #1,667 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,135 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 80 | #1,808 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 76 | #1,907 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 75 | #1,882 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,055 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,200 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 82 | #1,811 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 73 | #1,949 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 68 | #1,991 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 71 | #1,832 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 86 | #1,549 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 75 | #1,667 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 78 | #1,585 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 73 | #1,624 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 67 | #1,706 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 63 | #1,687 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 66 | #1,597 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,397 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 60 | #1,634 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,442 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 61 | #1,536 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,210 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 87 | #1,204 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 90 | #1,163 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 59 | #1,480 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 96 | #1,069 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 94 | #1,010 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 84 | #1,045 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 86 | #1,001 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 91 | #961 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 78 | #1,010 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 96 | #905 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 104 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 116 | #817 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 113 | #831 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 121 | #788 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 104 | #845 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 91 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 110 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 119 | #763 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 106 | #783 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 120 | #733 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 123 | #722 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 137 | #706 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 123 | #745 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 134 | #684 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 119 | #695 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 117 | #689 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 125 | #662 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 122 | #675 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 162 | #617 | 0.08 |
| 1963 | 153 | #635 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 159 | #612 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 148 | #647 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 160 | #617 | 0.08 |
| 1959 | 133 | #664 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 148 | #631 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 140 | #650 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 140 | #641 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 145 | #618 | 0.07 |
| 1954 | 143 | #617 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 157 | #570 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 136 | #605 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 125 | #631 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 118 | #639 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 124 | #611 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 148 | #550 | 0.08 |
| 1947 | 140 | #574 | 0.08 |
| 1946 | 104 | #633 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 93 | #628 | 0.07 |
| 1944 | 94 | #638 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 120 | #580 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 131 | #535 | 0.09 |
| 1941 | 136 | #505 | 0.11 |
| 1940 | 110 | #567 | 0.09 |
| 1939 | 136 | #494 | 0.12 |
| 1938 | 111 | #550 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 134 | #497 | 0.13 |
| 1936 | 142 | #473 | 0.14 |
| 1935 | 143 | #476 | 0.14 |
| 1934 | 140 | #485 | 0.14 |
| 1933 | 147 | #456 | 0.15 |
| 1932 | 166 | #437 | 0.16 |
| 1931 | 213 | #387 | 0.20 |
| 1930 | 202 | #414 | 0.18 |
| 1929 | 250 | #357 | 0.23 |
| 1928 | 234 | #386 | 0.21 |
| 1927 | 275 | #353 | 0.24 |
| 1926 | 304 | #332 | 0.27 |
| 1925 | 316 | #321 | 0.28 |
| 1924 | 287 | #349 | 0.25 |
| 1923 | 271 | #360 | 0.25 |
| 1922 | 299 | #342 | 0.27 |
| 1921 | 304 | #338 | 0.28 |
| 1920 | 277 | #358 | 0.26 |
| 1919 | 211 | #401 | 0.22 |
| 1918 | 273 | #350 | 0.27 |
| 1917 | 246 | #357 | 0.27 |
| 1916 | 222 | #367 | 0.25 |
| 1915 | 198 | #379 | 0.23 |
| 1914 | 151 | #386 | 0.23 |
| 1913 | 122 | #384 | 0.24 |
| 1912 | 94 | #398 | 0.22 |
| 1911 | 58 | #367 | 0.26 |
| 1910 | 21 | #652 | 0.11 |
| 1909 | 28 | #495 | 0.17 |
| 1908 | 14 | #743 | 0.09 |
| 1907 | 13 | #775 | 0.09 |
| 1906 | 11 | #796 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 10 | #834 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 11 | #758 | 0.09 |
| 1902 | 16 | #554 | 0.13 |
| 1901 | 7 | #940 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,294 | 0.04 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,281 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vito a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vito has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 126 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vito: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vito, and how old are they?
7,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 50% of the 15,052 Americans ever recorded as Vito. The median Vito alive today is 47 years old; half are between 23 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 9,594 people named Vito (25 women and girls, 9,569 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,742 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 431 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,790 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,660 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,210 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Vito born?
The states with the most babies named Vito are New York, New Jersey and Illinois, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5,946 | #882 | 4.7× |
| New Jersey | 1,533 | #1,015 | 3.4× |
| Illinois | 1,469 | #928 | 1.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 899 | #999 | 0.9× |
| California | 724 | #1,431 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 463 | #1,248 | 0.8× |
| Massachusetts | 450 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Connecticut | 323 | #567 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 158 | #1,251 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 123 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Vito is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vito is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 4.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Vito with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Vito
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Vito and names like it
- Compare Vito and SalvatoreBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sVito peaked in 1925.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vito since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Vito: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Vito.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Vito alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.