How common is the surname Buscemi?

1,907 people in the United States had the surname Buscemi in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 161,901 Americans. It ranked 15,380th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Buscemi?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Buscemi identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Buscemi?

Steve Buscemi, American actor, followed by Jo Andres.

Where is the surname Buscemi most common?

Wikidata records people named Buscemi in the United States.

How do you pronounce Buscemi?

Buscemi is /buːˈsɛmi/, 3 syllables.

Is the surname Buscemi getting more or less common?

More common. 1,800 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,907 in 2010, up 5.9%.

The surname Buscemi

A Sicilian surname, carried by 1,907 people in the United States.

Pronounced /buːˈsɛmi/ 3 syllables Soundex B250

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Buscemi is more common than 90.5% of them.

Origin

Sicilian origin

From Italian Buscemi, from Sicilian Buscema, from Old Sicilian Buxema, from Arabic قَلْعَةْ أَبُو شَامَة (qalʕat ʔabū šāma), meaning “Castle of the man with the mole”.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,907 people named Buscemi in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 161,901 Americans. That is up 5.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,800.

#15,380

rank among US surnames

1,907

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+5.9%

change since 2000 (was #15,042)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,380	Tolleson	1,907	161,901
#15,386	Leet	1,906	161,986

Who is named Buscemi

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Buscemi identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Buscemis

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Steve Buscemi
American actor, born 1957
Jo Andres
American choreographer (1954-2019)

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Buscema

Buscemi has the Soundex code B250, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B250.

Questions

Where does the surname Buscemi come from?: From Italian Buscemi, from Sicilian Buscema, from Old Sicilian Buxema, from Arabic قَلْعَةْ أَبُو شَامَة (qalʕat ʔabū šāma), meaning “Castle of the man with the mole”.
How common is the surname Buscemi?: 1,907 people in the United States had the surname Buscemi in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 161,901 Americans. It ranked 15,380th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Buscemi?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Buscemi identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Buscemi?: Steve Buscemi, American actor, followed by Jo Andres.
Where is the surname Buscemi most common?: Wikidata records people named Buscemi in the United States.
How do you pronounce Buscemi?: Buscemi is /buːˈsɛmi/, 3 syllables.
Is the surname Buscemi getting more or less common?: More common. 1,800 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,907 in 2010, up 5.9%.
What are other spellings of Buscemi?: Buscema.