The surname Defelice
An Italian surname, carried by 3,848 people in the United States.
Pronounced /dɛfəˈliːtʃeɪ/ 3 syllables Soundex D142
Origin
Italian origin
Rare spelling of Italian De Felice.
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 3,848 people named Defelice in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 80,235 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,657.
Who is named Defelice
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Defelice identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Defelice
Defelice has the Soundex code D142, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D142.
Other Italian surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Defelice come from?
- Rare spelling of Italian De Felice.
- How common is the surname Defelice?
- 3,848 people in the United States had the surname Defelice in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,235 Americans. It ranked 8,559th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Defelice?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Defelice identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- How do you pronounce Defelice?
- Defelice is /dɛfəˈliːtʃeɪ/, 3 syllables.
- Is the surname Defelice getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,657 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,848 in 2010, up 5.2%.