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vito Name Meaning and History

Italian: from the personal name Vito, Latin Vitus, from vita ‘life’. Compare Vita. The name was popular in the Middle Ages as the result of the cult of an early Christian martyr in southern Italy, about whom very little is known. He was regarded as a patron against epilepsy and the nervous tremor named after him, ‘St. Vitus’s dance’. His cult spread into Germany and thence through Eastern Europe, where the name was reinforced by native Slavic names such as Vitoslav and Vitomír, with a first element derived from Old Slavic vitati ‘inhabit’ or ‘welcome’. It may also derive in part from the Lombardic name Wido or Frankish Wit(t)o (see Guido).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of vito Families in the US in 1920
Number of vito families
 53-104
 18-52		 1-17
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Threads: 11 - Messages: 22
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Obit, Anne Crimi (nee Vito) woodsman1953 0
Vito's, Fabiano's & Borzacchiello's of Pietramelara, Caserta, Italy jenniferfvito 0
Vito surname gene 6
Joseph and Rosa Vito Johnsgal 0
Vito-Beardsley DTaber1385 0
VITO, Maria Fadale - 1893 Marriage countycavan 0
Vito-Nicoletti LucilleKent 2
Joseph Vita - Vito from Italy Trudy Myrland 3
Vito Family, Chicago, IL sherri_clemmer 0
Minerva Jan Vito PaulaVanDorn81 0
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