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Kito

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Form of Christian

Kito has been given to 171 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 22 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.

Babies named Kito, 2017

1 in 715,000

Kito over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Kito over time

In 2017, Kito went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19742017

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Kito: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Christian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kito means

Kito is a form of Christian.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kito is used in Sorbian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkʲi.tɔ/ for Kito.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Kito is a form of Christian. Christian has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Kito is used in Lower Sorbian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lower Sorbian, Kito is pronounced /ˈkʲi.tɔ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 160 boys were recorded with the name Kito between 1974 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1977; its best national rank was #2,171 in 1977.

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Kito between 1974 and 1976. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1976; its best national rank was #8,647 in 1976.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kito?

Kito had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 370,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kito sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kito. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kitos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kito was born before 1979 — so the typical Kito is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
56.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
160
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 56.3% of all recorded uses (90).

Is Kito rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (22)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,171
1977

Spellings of Kito

Kito is not the most common spelling — Keith is, with 51.7% against Kito's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kito is used

Across 1910–2025, Kito was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 1,216,280 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kito has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kito around the world

Where Kito ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2009
    #4,527
    in 2009
  • France
    2019–2019
    #6,210
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2005–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kito by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,171
1977
Peak year
1977
22 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
160
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,647
1976
Peak year
1976
6 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
1976
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kito

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Kito

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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