Vita vs Vito

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Vita Vito

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 128 years in which either name was published, Vito for 121 years and Vita for 7 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

• 1888–1889 Vita ahead
• 1898 Vito ahead
• 1900–1901 Vita ahead
• 1902 Vito ahead
• 1904–1906 Vita ahead
• 1907–2025 Vito ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Vitas alive today are over 55; half the Vitos are over 46. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Vita New York (8.6×), New Jersey (1.7×), Michigan (1.7×)
• Vito New York (6.2×), New Jersey (4.5×), Illinois (2.4×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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