Vito Family History
Vito Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Vito
Name Distribution of Vito Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Vito families
 3 - 2  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Vito Family Origin
Vito Emigration Information (US)
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Vito Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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