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The surname Capizzi

An Italian surname, carried by 1,101 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex C120

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Capizzi is more common than 85.7% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Capizzi.

One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,101 people named Capizzi in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 280,423 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,081.

#23,167
rank among US surnames
1,101
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+1.9%
change since 2000 (was #22,258)

Who is named Capizzi

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

96% of people named Capizzi identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
  • Two or more races 1.0%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Capizzi

Capizzi has the Soundex code C120, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C120.

Other Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Capizzi come from?
Borrowed from Italian Capizzi.
How common is the surname Capizzi?
1,101 people in the United States had the surname Capizzi in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 280,423 Americans. It ranked 23,167th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Capizzi?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Capizzi identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Capizzi getting more or less common?
More common. 1,081 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,101 in 2010, up 1.9%.