Meaning and background
The story behind Vito
Vito has more than one documented personal-name route. Behind the Name identifies Italian and Spanish Vito as a form of Vitus, while a separate entry explains Slovene Vito as a former short form of Vitomir that became independent. The Italian entry also notes Vito Corleone as a fictional bearer. These distinct histories should remain visible instead of assigning one translation to every use of the spelling.
- Origin
- Italian and Spanish form of Vitus; separately, Slovene Vito began as a short form of Vitomir. Source · Source 2
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About Vito
Recorded as a dog’s name
Vito appears in 19 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/vitoʊ/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the first syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/vitoʊ/ · primary stress on syllable 1V IY1 T OW0
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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