How common is the surname Decarlo?

5,889 people in the United States had the surname Decarlo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 52,427 Americans. It ranked 5,860th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Decarlo?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Decarlo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Where is the surname Decarlo most common?

Wikidata records people named Decarlo in the United States.

Is the surname Decarlo getting more or less common?

About as common. 5,889 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,889 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Decarlo

An Italian surname, carried by 5,889 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex D264

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Decarlo is more common than 96.4% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

From Italian De Carlo.

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 5,889 people named Decarlo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 52,427 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 5,889.

#5,860

rank among US surnames

5,889

people in 2010

2.0

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #5,433)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,851	Tull	5,904	52,294
#5,852	Sayles	5,902	52,312
#5,853	Ochs	5,901	52,321
#5,854	Boatman	5,899	52,339
#5,855	Blakley	5,898	52,347
#5,856	Lao	5,897	52,356
#5,857	Malinowski	5,895	52,374

Who is named Decarlo

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

93% of people named Decarlo identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.1%
Two or more races 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Decarlos

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Mark DeCarlo
American actor, born 1962

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Decarlo

Dicarlo

Decarlo has the Soundex code D264, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D264.

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Decarlo come from?: From Italian De Carlo.
How common is the surname Decarlo?: 5,889 people in the United States had the surname Decarlo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 52,427 Americans. It ranked 5,860th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Decarlo?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Decarlo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Decarlo?: Mark DeCarlo, American actor.
Where is the surname Decarlo most common?: Wikidata records people named Decarlo in the United States.
Is the surname Decarlo getting more or less common?: About as common. 5,889 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,889 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.