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The surname DeFilippo

An Italian surname, carried by 2,975 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex D141

DeFilippo: #10,731 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer DeFilippo #10,731, 2,975 people DeFilippo: #10,731 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez DeFilippo #10,731, 2,975 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). DeFilippo is more common than 93.4% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

From Italian de Filippo.

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 2,975 people named DeFilippo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 103,780 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,577.

#10,731
rank among US surnames
2,975
people in 2010
1.0
per 100,000 Americans
+15.4%
change since 2000 (was #11,260)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#10,726Hennigan2,978103,675
#10,728Spoon2,977103,710
#10,729Lumley2,976103,745
#10,731DeFilippo2,975103,780
#10,736Haman2,974103,815
#10,739Arends2,972103,885

Who is named DeFilippo

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

95% of people named DeFilippo identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
  • Two or more races 0.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like DeFilippo

DeFilippo has the Soundex code D141, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D141.

Other Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname DeFilippo come from?
From Italian de Filippo.
How common is the surname DeFilippo?
2,975 people in the United States had the surname DeFilippo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,780 Americans. It ranked 10,731st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname DeFilippo?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named DeFilippo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname DeFilippo getting more or less common?
More common. 2,577 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,975 in 2010, up 15%.