Titus

(male) From an old Roman given name, of unknown ultimate origin. It was borne by a companion of St Paul who became the first bishop of Crete, and also by the Roman emperor who destroyed Jerusalem in ad 70. It is remembered in England as the name of the clergyman and anti-Catholic conspirator Titus Oates (1649–1705), who fabricated the so-called Popish Plot (1678) to kill Charles II and his Protestant supporters. The name has never been very common in the English-speaking world, but is recorded regularly in some families from the 17th century onwards.