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Vito vs Vittorio

American parents have registered 15,052 Vitos since 1880, against 1,288 Vittorios. Vito is still ahead, with 117 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vito against Vittorio, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vito Vittorio

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

Vito has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1898 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Vito had 67 and Vittorio had 28.

Side by side

  Vito Vittorio
Total US births 15,0521,288
Most in one year 31631
Babies in 2025 11731
Estimated living today 7,6001,200
Median age today 4626
Peak year 19252024
Best rank 320th boys3,605th boys
Rank in 2025 1,499th3,583rd
First recorded 18981916
Girls / boys 0 / 15,0520 / 1,288

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 Vitos alive today are over 46; half the Vittorios are over 26. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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.

Country Vito Vittorio
Italy 7,10716,033
France 980670
Switzerland 490124
England and Wales 216120
Belgium 22358
Poland 4710

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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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vito and Vittorio.