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    The surname Corrao

    An Italian surname, carried by 1,451 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C600

    Corrao: #18,849 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Corrao #18,849, 1,451 people Corrao: #18,849 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Corrao #18,849, 1,451 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Corrao is more common than 88.4% of them.

    Origin

    Italian origin

    Borrowed from Italian Corrao, itself borrowed from Sicilian Currau.

    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 1,451 people named Corrao in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 212,781 Americans. That is down 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,565.

    #18,849
    rank among US surnames
    1,451
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -7.3%
    change since 2000 (was #16,793)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,841Tabron1,452212,635
    #18,849Berber1,451212,781
    #18,858Zagorski1,450212,928

    Who is named Corrao

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

    94% of people named Corrao identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.9%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    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 Corrao

    Corrao has the Soundex code C600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C600.

    Other Italian surnames

    All 798 Italian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Corrao come from?
    Borrowed from Italian Corrao, itself borrowed from Sicilian Currau.
    How common is the surname Corrao?
    1,451 people in the United States had the surname Corrao in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 212,781 Americans. It ranked 18,849th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Corrao?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Corrao identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Corrao getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,565 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,451 in 2010, down 7.3%.